Tai people have many different subgroups namely, Tai Nue (Northern or Chinese Shan), Tai Lam (Black Shan of Laos, Vietnam), Tai Sa (in China), Tai Mao (living along the China/Shan State border), Tai Khun, Tai Sipson Panna (Eastern Shan State), Tai Kham Ti (Northern Shan State, Kachin State), Tai Ahom (Assam, India) Tai Lue (Lanna, Thailand), Tai Long (Thailand, Central Shan State), Tai Leng (Kachin, Shan State border), Tai Loi (Mountain Shan/Hill Shan), Tai Lai. All Tai/Shan people call themselves “Tai’ and not as members of the different subgroups. Identifying themselves separately only serves to classify them as a people.
Besides these subgroups of Tai, there are other ethnic groups that have lived peacefully with Tai/ Shan people without any problem before Shan State became a State of Burma. They are Ta-ang (Palaung), Pa-O, Daung Yoe, Kachin, Dai Nawng (Yawnghwe) or in Burmese Intha, Danu (in states bordered or close to Burma proper), Lisu, Lahu, Wa, Kaw, Padaung, and Black Karen (in the Namsang and Loilem townships). These people have lived peaceably together for many centuries. Our purpose of using the name “Tai Nation” is to cover all these groups that belong to Tai/Shan peoples through sharing common language, culture and tradition, and the population and geographical location of Shan States as a nation.
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