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The Shan language 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, which
was formerly spelt သျှမ်း (hsyam) in Burmese, is an exonym believed to be a Burmese derivative of Siam. The number of Shan
speakers is not known in part because that of the Shan population is unknown. Estimates of Shan people range from four million
to 30 million, though the true number is somewhere around six million, with about half speaking the Shan language. In 2001
Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk estimated 3.2 Shan speakers in Myanmar, the Mahidol University Institute for Language
and Culture gave the number of Shan speakers in Thailand as 95,000 in 2006. Many Shan speak local dialects as well as the
language of their trading partners. Due to the civil war in Burma, few Shan today can read or write in Shan script, which
was derived from the Burmese script. |
Names (more)[ar] الشانية[az] şan dili [bn] শান [bs] šan [br] Chaneg [bg] шан [ca] xan [cs] šanština [da] shan [de] Schan-Sprache [dz] ཤཱན་ཁ [el] Σαν [en] Shan language [et] šani [fa] شانی [fi] shan [fr] chan [gu] શેન [he] שאן [hi] शैन [hr] shan [hu] san [id] Shan [is] sjan [it] shan [ja] シャン語 [kn] ಶಾನ್ [ks] شان [kk] Шан тілі [kv] Шан кыв [ko] 샨어 [lo] ພາສາໄທໃຫຍ່ [lv] šanu [lt] Šanų kalba [ml] ഷാൻ [mr] शॅन [mk] шан [mt] Xan [my] ရှမ်း [nl] Shan [nn] shan [nb] shan [or] ଶାନ୍ [pl] Język szan [pt] Língua shan [rm] shan [ro] shan [ru] Шанский язык [sk] šančina [sl] šanščina [es] shan [sr] Шан [sv] Shan [ta] ஷான் [te] షాన్ [th] ภาษาไทใหญ่ [tr] Shan Dili [uk] шанська [vi] Tiếng Shan [zh] 掸语 |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-2B : shnISO 639-2T : shn ISO 639-3 : shn Linked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/shnhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:shn http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/shn More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: shnFreebase ISO 639-3 : shn GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |