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  • They're a cross between the Lisu, the Hmong, and the Lahu, with a touch of Akha added in.

    An Interview with Mischa Berlinski 2010

  • In this ethnic Lahu village though, the children are still in the classroom - for now.

    Mekong Flows Along Troubled Myanmar's East 2010

  • The team studied the languages of Dai, Hani, Va, Lahu, Jingpo, Achang, Lisu, and Nu minzu and they helped create fourteen scripts for ethnic groups,51 just like some Christian missionaries had done in Guizhou and Yunnan.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • The ethnic Shan majority tend to live in the lowlands; the Akha, high in the mountains; and the ethnic Lahu and the Wa somewhere in between.

    Mekong Flows Along Troubled Myanmar's East 2010

  • One of South Korea's leading phonetics experts in the late 1990s devised a Hangeul-based alphabet for Lahu, spoken by an ethnic group that lives in southern China and Southeast Asia.

    To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean 2009

  • If women and men have to do everything together — in pairs as they do in the Lahu society — in order to remain equal, then it seems to admit that otherwise they would divide, with men rising to the top.

    Gender 2009

  • The origin myths of the Lahu involve dyad male-female pairs: the creator and supreme god Xeul Sha (made up of the male and female twins Xeul Yad and Sha Yad — equal in all abilities and virtually indistinguishable, acting as one entity), the Senior Daughter and Son of the supreme god, and the first human couple.

    Gender 2009

  • On September 27, 2007 hundreds of Shan, Pa'O, Palaung, and Lahu villagers gathered in a internally displaced persons site in Shan State, Eastern Burma as an act of solidarity with those demonstrating in the larger cities of Burma.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Of recent years many conversions to Christianity have been made by the American Baptist missionaries amongst the Lahu or Muhsö hill tribesmen.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Various splinter groups representing an array of ethnicities - the Karen, Shan, Kachin, Mon, Chin, Arakanese, Wa, Karenni, Paluang, Pa-O and Lahu - have all taken up arms at some point.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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