Shan
Americannoun
plural
Shans,plural
Shan-
a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Myanmar (Burma).
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a language spoken in the Shan States and belonging to the Tai group of languages.
noun
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a member of a Mongoloid people living in Myanmar, Thailand, and SW China
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the language or group of dialects spoken by the Shan, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family and closely related to Thai
Example Sentences
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Shan Li is a foreign correspondent covering India and the surrounding region for The Wall Street Journal's New Delhi bureau.
Everywhere the BBC team travelled in southern Shan State, we were followed and closely monitored by dozens of police and military officials, always polite but very persistent.
From BBC
AFP journalists joined a military-organised press tour through the smouldering wreckage of two former labs south of the town of Hsipaw in northeastern Shan state.
From Barron's
Mr Shan's company said it had hired numerous lawyers to try to recover the money owed by Ms Hansen's companies, but she and her business associates stopped communicating.
From BBC
But there was a muted celebratory air as teams loaded candles and fireworks onto the homemade airships, part of the annual Tazaungdaing hot air balloon festival in northern Shan state's Taunggyi city.
From Barron's
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