Shan

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noun, plural Shans, (especially collectively) Shan.

a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Burma.

a language spoken in the Shan States and belonging to the Tai group of languages.

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Shan (ʃɑːn)

—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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