(e.g., Mandalay dialect), called anya tha ?????? and speakers from Lower Burma (e.g., Yangon dialect), called auk tha ????????, largely occur in vocabulary, not pronunciation. Minor lexical and rhyme differences exist throughout the Irrawaddy River valley. For instance, for the term ?????, "food offering [to a monk]", Lower Burmese speakers use instead of , the pronunciation used in Upper Burma.

The standard dialect is typified by the Yangon dialect because of the modern city's