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Within Vinony's link graph, Shan people is referenced by 1,188 other articles, and connects out to Tai peoples, Austroasiatic and Bamar.
It sits within the topics Buddhist communities of Myanmar, Ethnic groups in China and Ethnic groups in Myanmar.
Its subject is documented across 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Myanmar mainly shan state
- 5 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
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- Commons category
- Shan
- described at URL
- www.mar.umd.edu/assessment.asp?groupId=77507
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Encyclopedic overview
The Shan people (Shan: တႆး, pronounced [taj˥], or Burmese: ရှမ်းလူမျိုး, pronounced [ʃáɰ̃ lùmjó]), historically known as the Tai Long (တႆးလူင်) or Thai Yai, are a Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia. As the largest minority ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma), the Shan have historically coexisted and integrated within the broader framework of the Burmese nation, remaining an integral part of the country's socio-political history and identity across successive historical eras.
1889 photograph of a Shan woman
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shan people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.