Rakhine (/rəˈkaɪn/; Burmese: ရခိုင်ဘာသာ, MLCTS: ra.hkuing bhasa Burmese pronunciation: [ɹəkʰàɪɴ bàθà]), also known as Arakanese, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in western Myanmar, primarily in the Rakhine State, and parts of south-eastern Bangladesh.

As there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing a language from a dialect, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about the linguistic, historical and social status of Arakanese.

A gloss of vocabulary differences between Standard Burmese and Arakanese is below:[4] The phonological system described here is the inventory of sounds, represented using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

Because Arakanese has preserved the /ɹ/ sound, the /-ɹ-/ medial (which is preserved in writing in Standard Burmese with the diacritic ြ) is still distinguished in the following Arakanese consonant clusters: /ɡɹ- kɹ- kʰɹ- ŋɹ- pɹ- pʰɹ- bɹ- mɹ- m̥ɹ- hɹ-/.

Similarly, Arakanese has a number of closed syllable rhymes that do not exist in Standard Burmese, including /-ɛɴ -ɔɴ -ɛʔ -ɔʔ/.

The Arakanese dialect also has a higher frequency of open vowels weakening to /ə/ than Standard Burmese.

The following is a summary of consonantal, vowel and rhyme differences from Standard Burmese found in the Arakanese dialect:[8][9] e.g.