Publisher's Synopsis
Shan, a member of the Tai family of languages, refers to those languages spoken in the Shan States of Myanmar (Burma), the Yunan Province in China, and the northern provinces of Mae Hong Son and Chiengrai in Thailand. Dr. Josiah Cushing, a missionary who worked in the Shan States in the 19th century, used Burman Shan as the basis of the colloquial