Shan people - Shan

Japanese: シャン族 - シャンぞく(英語表記)Shan
Shan people - Shan
An ethnic group that lives from the Shan Plateau in northern Myanmar to the mountainous region in the northern Indochina Peninsula and further to the mountainous region in southern China. They are also called the Tai-Yai people. Their language belongs to the Western Tai family. Their population is estimated at over 3.5 million. They are broadly divided into three groups: the Amti Shan in northern Myanmar, which borders Assam in India, the Shan in China, and the Shan in Myanmar. Their occupation is settled agriculture, growing rice using irrigation. Their social organization does not have a single lineage of kinship groups like clans, and the village organization unit is a nuclear family (small family) consisting of a married couple and their unmarried children. There are also hereditary castes of nobles, commoners, and lower classes. The Shan are linguistically and culturally homogeneous, but there are regional differences in their religious beliefs, with Hinduism being practiced in China and Myanmar and Hinduism in Assam. In addition, animism called Phi and Nat is deeply rooted in the Shan.

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Japanese:
ミャンマー北部のシャン高原からインドシナ半島北部の山地,さらに中国南部の山地にかけて居住する民族。タイ・ヤイ族ともいう。言語は西部タイ語族に属する。人口約 350万以上と推定される。インドのアッサムと境を接する北部ミャンマーのアムティシャン,中国のシャン,ミャンマーのシャンの三つに大別される。生業は灌漑による水稲栽培で定住農耕である。社会組織は氏族のような単系的親族集団を欠き,夫婦とその未婚の子供からなる核家族(小家族)が村組織の単位をなしている。また貴族,平民,下層民という世襲的カーストが存在している。シャン族は言語的,文化的には同質であるが,信仰面では地域差があり,中国やミャンマーでは部派仏教を,アッサムではヒンドゥー教を信奉している。それらのほかに,ピー Phiやナット Natと呼ばれるアニミズムも深く浸透している。

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