The purpose of the study is to present the thesis title as “A Phonological Study of Pa-O Spoken Dialect in Ho Pong City, Southern Shan State of Myanmar”. This research has 2 objectives; 1) to study the phonemes of Pa O dialect spoken in Ho Pong, Southern Shan State of Myanmar, 2) to analyze consonant sound, vowels sound, and tonemes of Pa O dialect spoken in Ho Pong, Southern Shan State of Myanmar. The sample group consists of six informants and the sample group obtained by purposive way to provide phonology. The research methodology is qualitative. The tools used are books, informants, journals and thesis.  The data analyses were Phonological word, syllable, phoneme, and assimilation.

The result of research was found that

The result of the study shows that tones of the final syllable of statement seem to cause to be falling or rising. There are three types of phonological words: monosyllabic words, disyllabic words and trisyllabic words. There are three types of syllables: presyllable, minor syllable and major syllable. The structure of the syllable is C₁ (C₃) (C₄) V₁ (C₂). The phonological system is composed of twenty consonant phonemes / p, pʰ, b, t, tʰ, d, c, cʰ, k, kʰ, Ɂ, m, n, ᶇ, s, j, h, l, r, w/; There are eleven vowel phonemes, All vowels can be divided into two sets. There are nine single vowels as /i, e, ɛ, ʉ, ə, a, u, o, ɔ/; and two glided vowels are /ai, au/. There are four tones: (1) high, (2) high falling, (3) mid and (4) low.

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