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Definition of shans in English English dictionary
- plural of Shan
- Shan
- A state in Thailand
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- Of or pertaining to the Shan people or the Shan language
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- poor
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- The language of this people, in the Tai-Kadai language family
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- A people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people
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- {i} member of a people that lives in northeast Myanmar and in areas in the vicinity of China and Thailand and Laos
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- {i} Tai long, branch of Tai languages; people that lives in northeast Myanmar and in areas in the vicinity of China and Thailand and Laos; Shan language spoken by the Shan people
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- Shan Tai Any member of a Southeast Asian people who live primarily in eastern and northwestern Myanmar (Burma) and also in Yunnan province, China. The Shan are the largest minority group in Myanmar, numbering more than four million. They live mainly in the valleys and plains on the Shan Plateau, where they grow rice or practice shifting agriculture. They are Theravada Buddhists and have their own written language and literature. They dominated much of Myanmar from the 13th to the 16th century; since the 1970s they have been at odds with the national government over the issue of local autonomy. See also Tai. An shan Shan tung Shan hsi Altay Shan Hung shan culture Lung shan culture Lu Hsiang shan Mao Shan Shan tung Peninsula Tien Shan T'ien Shan Celestial Mountains Tian Shan Tai Chi Chuan Tai languages Tai Xu Tai Lake Tai Hu
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- a branch of the Tai languages
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- unfair