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Preferred term

shnShan  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Shan language (, or , ; , ; ) is the native language of Shan people and spoken mostly in Shan State, Burma. It is also used in pockets of Kachin State in Burma, in northern Thailand, and in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. Shan is a member of the Tai–Kadai language family, and is related to Thai. It has five tones, which do not correspond exactly to Thai tones, plus a "sixth tone" used for emphasis. It is called Tai Yai, or Tai Long in the Tai languages. The term "Shan" is an exonym believed to be a Burmese derivative of "Siam".

Entry terms

  • Shan language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • shn

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • shn

ISO 639-3 code

  • shn

Notation

  • shn

In other languages

  • shan

    French

  • chan
  • Schan-Sprache

    German

  • shan

    Italian

  • shan

    Portuguese

  • Língua shan
  • shan

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/shn

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