Shan
Americannoun
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
As in previous rounds of this strange, month-long election, voting was orderly and peaceful at the polling station in Nyaungshwe, Shan State, which a BBC team observed.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
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 • Jan. 14, 2026
ProPublica journalists Nicole Foy, McKenzie Funk, Joanna Shan, Haley Clark and Cengiz Yar gathered videos via Spanish and English social media posts, local press reports and court records.
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026
“We are very ideological about fiction in this country. If a character is not familiar, then that character becomes unbelievable,” Shan said.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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