Arakanese phonology

Arakanese prominently uses the sound, which has merged to the  sound in standard Burmese. Also, Arakanese has merged various vowel sounds like MY ဧ  vowel to. Hence, a word like "blood" is MY သွေး in standard Burmese while it pronounced  in Arakanese. According to speakers of standard Burmese, Arakanese only has an intelligibility of seventy-five percent with Burmese. Moreover, there is less voicing in Arakanese than in Standard Burmese, occurring only when the consonant is unaspirated. Unlike in Burmese, voicing never shifts from to.

Because Arakanese has preserved the sound, the  medial (preserved only in writing in Standard Burmese with the diacritic MY ြ) is still distinguished in the following consonant clusters:.

The Arakanese dialect has a higher frequency of open vowels weakening to. An example is the word for "salary," (MY လခ) which is in standard Burmese, but  in Arakanese.

The following are consonantal, vowel and rhyme changes found in the Arakanese dialect: