Shwe Thamin
Shwe may refer to: * Shwe language, a variety of the Palaung language * Shwe, a subgroup of the Palaung people * Shwe (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter * Than Shwe Than Shwe (; ; born 2 February 1933) is a retired Burmese army general who held influential positions within Myanmar's government. Serving as the chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) from 1992 to 2011, he played a signifi ...

Shwe Language
Palaung or Ta'ang (), also known as De'ang (; ), is a Austroasiatic languages, Austroasiatic dialect cluster spoken by over half a million people in Burma (Shan State) and neighboring countries. The Palaung people are divided into Palé (Ruching), Rumai, and Shwe, and each of whom have their own language. The Riang languages are reported to be unintelligible or only understood with great difficulty by native speakers of the other Palaung languages. A total number of speakers is uncertain; there were 150,000 Shwe speakers in 1982, 272,000 Ruching (Palé) speakers in 2000, and 139,000 Rumai speakers at an unrecorded date. Palaung was classified as a "severely endangered" language in UNESCO's ''Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger''.' The Rulai dialect spoken near Lashio has regular phonological changes and some lexical differences from Ruching''.'' Dialects Yan and Zhou (2012) Chinese linguists classify "De'ang 德昂" varieties (spoken mostly in Santaishan Ethnic De'ang Town ...
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Palaung People
The Palaung ( ; , also written as Benglong Palong) or Ta'ang (တ‌အာင်း) are one of the ancient Austroasiatic ethnic groups found in Shan State of Myanmar (Burma), Yunnan Province of China and Northern Thailand. In China, they are referred to as the De'ang people. The majority of population lives mainly in the northern parts of northern Shan State in the Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone, with the capital at Namhsan. The Ta'ang (Palaung) State Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Palaung ethnic group, began fighting against the Burmese military in 1963. It entered a cease-fire agreement with the central government in April 1991, but is currently continuing the insurgency. The insurgency has become intense after TNLA actively involving in Operation 1027 which is a military offensive allied with many other revolutionary rebel forces in the country, against the Myanmar's ruling military junta. The Myanmar military is believed to have derived benefit from poppy cultiv ...
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Shwe (Cyrillic)
Shwe (Ꚗ ꚗ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It resembles the letter Sha (Ш ш; ) with a long tail attached to its bottom. Shwe is used in an old orthography of the Abkhaz language, where it represents the labialized voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant . It corresponds to Шә. Computing codes See also *Ш ш : Cyrillic letter Sha *Cyrillic characters in Unicode As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks: * CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters * Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters * Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters * Cyrillic Extended-BU+A64 ... References Cyrillic letters {{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub ...
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