The Taungyo (Burmese: တောင်ရိုး လူမျိုး Tauñyoù lumyoù) are a sub-ethnic group of the Bamar people living primarily in Shan State and centered on Pindaya.

[1] They speak Taungyo (တောင်ရိုးစကား Tauñyoùs̱áḵà), a Tavoyan dialect of the Burmese language.

[2] Taungyo has 89% lexical similarity with standard Burmese, and is also closely related to Danu, Intha and Rakhine.

[3] A sample of Taungyo dialect vocabulary include the following:[2]