20 Facts About Shan people

Shan people, known as the Tai Long, or Tai Yai are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia.

The Shan are the biggest minority of Burma and primarily live in the Shan State of this country, but inhabit parts of Mandalay Region, Kachin State, and Kayin State, and in adjacent regions of China, Laos, Assam and Thailand.

Shan people is an exonym from the Burmese language; the term itself was historically spelt ????, and is derived from the term Siam, the former name of Thailand.

The Shan people have a number of exonyms in other minority languages, including Pa'O: ????, Western Pwo Karen: ??, and Mon ????? .

The Shan people constitute one of the four main Buddhist ethnic groups in Burma; the others are the Bamar, the Mon and the Rakhine.

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The Shan people language, spoken by about 5 or 6 million, is closely related to Thai and Lao, and is part of the family of Tai languages.

The Shan people alphabet is an adaptation of the Mon–Burmese script via the Burmese alphabet.

Tai-Shan people are believed to have migrated from Yunnan in China.

The Shan people are descendants of the oldest branch of the Tai-Shan people, known as Tai Luang or Tai Yai .

Monhyin-led Confederation of Shan people States defeated Ava in 1527, and ruled all of Upper Burma until 1555.

Shan people are known as "Tai Yai" in north Thailand, where the word Shan is very seldom used to refer to them.

Under the British colonial administration, the Shan people principalities were administered separately as British protectorates with limited monarchical powers invested in the Shan people Saophas.

The Shan people states were given the option to secede after 10 years of independence.

The Shan people states became Shan people State in 1948 as part of the newly independent Burma.

Shan people have been engaged in an independence struggle that has led to intermittent civil war within Burma for decades.

Males typically find low-paid work in construction, while many Shan people females fall in the hands of human trafficking gangs and end up in the prostitution business or bride trafficking.

Shan people was campaigning for the Burmese regime to leave the Federated Shan States and return to their own country, to respect the traditional culture and indigenous lands of the Shan people.

Shan people worked with the interim Shan Government, with Shan exiles abroad, and the Burmese regime to regain his country.

Declaration of independence was rejected by most other ethnic minority groups, many Shan people living inside Burma, and the country's leading opposition party, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.

Shan people have reported an increase in restrictions on their movements and an escalation in Burmese Army raids on Shan villages.