Description:
"...Shans around the world (Tai peoples)
The Tai or Tai-Kadai ethnicity
The Tai or Tai-Kadai ethnicity refers collectively to the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia, stretching from_
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Hainan to eastern India
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and from southern Sichuan to Laos,
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Thailand, and parts of Vietnam,
which speak languages in the Tai-Kadai family and share similar traditions and festivals, including Songkran or Thingyan water festival.
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Despite never having a unified nation-state of their own,
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the peoples also have historically shared a vague idea of a Shan or Tai or ?Siam” nation, corrupted to Shan in Burma or Assam in India, and most of them self-identified themselves as ?Tai”.
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Source/publisher:
Burma Digest
Date of Publication:
2008-01-22
Date of entry:
2011-01-06
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English