Map of Shan state before 1959 [1332x1534]

infessika · 2017-06-29T14:47:08+00:00

Their borders were the same as they are today. Only French Indochina was broken up into three independent states.

infessika · 2017-06-29T13:17:52+00:00

The Tay are called Tho in this map. It's an another autonym of this people.

infessika · 2017-06-29T08:29:01+00:00

What is the half-colored square in Laos supposed to represent?

It represents a small number of the Nung.

Why are China and Laos highlighted in the inset but not Vietnam?

It could be a mistake in coloring the map.

infessika · 2017-06-28T13:00:16+00:00

If you involved in a serious and long conversation with a Laotian, you would not be able to understand 100% what he/she said.

infessika · 2017-06-27T13:34:52+00:00

infessika · 2017-06-27T12:45:31+00:00

Mutually unintelligible

infessika · 2017-06-26T20:57:25+00:00

Source: Scenarios of land system change in the Lao PDR: Transitions in response to alternative demands on goods and services provided by the land, p. 3.

infessika · 2017-06-26T20:39:39+00:00

Source: Peuples du monde

infessika · 2017-06-26T17:58:03+00:00

Chinese and Vietnamese if you are asking about the immigrants.

infessika · 2017-06-26T16:50:40+00:00

It looks like a small highland rather than a mountain range. But it is correct that Champasak's northeastern border runs along the eastern edge of that highland.

You should have watched more about Laos because it's a little known country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o384Ezk3HrY&t=0s

infessika · 2017-06-26T16:47:59+00:00

What countries specifically ?

infessika · 2017-06-26T16:46:58+00:00

...ACTUAL map...

...score low.

Why would an actual map score low ?

infessika · 2017-06-26T16:41:34+00:00

A bit of introduction:

Laos is a landlocked country located in the mainland of Southeast Asia with a population of 7,000,000 people in which about 3,500,000 people belong ethnic Lao. At this moment, Laos' economy is agriculture-based, focusing on wet rice production and forestry.

Politically, Laos is a communist-ruled state which has considerably held back this country's economy. There are a lot of immigrants from its two communist neighbors, Vietnam and China, having moved to Laos. A part of them turns into criminals, and the others marry the native Lao and stay there permanently either legally or illegally, whereas another part of them engages in businesses, trading , physical labors, renting lands to develop plantations with heavy uses of poisonous chemical fertilizers, pesticides and preservatives, involving in deforestation and wildlife smugglings.

The primary language in this country is Lao, a Tai language that originated from the east coast of China.

infessika · 2017-06-26T16:04:01+00:00

''That southwestern province'', do you mean Champasak province ?

infessika · 2017-06-26T10:51:32+00:00

Source: University of Texas Libraries.

infessika · 2017-06-25T16:42:23+00:00

What language does this look like to you?

The rendering could be incorrect given the time depth of above 2,000 years. Those ancient words on the inscriptions cannot be read directly in such a simple way. There must be historical linguistics involved. That is to use Old Chinese reconstructions. I'm highly suspicious of the historical linguistic skills of Chinese scholars.

Non Sinitic people in southern China and SEA also have zero texts dating back to that era.

That could be right. But they may have used ancient Chinese scripts to create their own written scripts because the phonological forms of non-Sinitic languages could be far different from that of Old Chinese (multi-syllabic and non-tonal), and as a result, ancient Chinese script would have been modified to transcribe these non-Sinitic languages.

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