Shan
noun, plural Shans ( especially collectively ) Shan.
1.
a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Burma.
2.
a language spoken in the Shan States and belonging to the Tai group of languages.
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| —n , Shans, Shan | |
| 1. | a member of a Mongoloid people living in Myanmar, Thailand, and SW China |
| 2. | the language or group of dialects spoken by the Shan, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family and closely related to Thai |
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