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  2. Shan language - Wikipedia

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    Shan paper manuscript bound with a patterned cotton cloth cover and a felt binding ribbon, Shan State, first half of the 20th century. British Library. The Shan language is the native language of the Shan people and is mostly spoken in Shan State, Myanmar.

  3. Dunhuang manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript. Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Frenchman Paul Pelliot and British man Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, from 1906 to 1909.

  4. Xuan paper - Wikipedia

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    宣紙. Kana. せんし. Transcriptions. Romanization. senshi. Xuan paper, Shuen paper, or rice paper, is a kind of paper originating in ancient China used for writing and painting. Xuan paper is renowned for being soft and fine-textured, suitable for conveying the artistic expression of both Chinese calligraphy and painting.

  5. Shan States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Shan States were a collection of minor Shan kingdoms called muang whose rulers bore the title saopha in British Burma. They were analogous to the princely states of British India. The term "Shan States" was first used during the British rule in Burma as a geopolitical designation for certain areas of Burma (officially, the Federated ...

  6. Shan alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Graphical summary of the development of Tai scripts from a Shan perspective, as reported in Sai Kam Mong's Shan Script book. The Shan alphabet is a Brahmic abugida, used for writing the Shan language, which was derived from the Burmese alphabet. [2] Due to its recent reforms, the Shan alphabet is more phonetic than other Burmese-derived alphabets.

  7. Bakhshali manuscript - Wikipedia

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    1881. The Bakhshali manuscript is an ancient Indian mathematical text written on birch bark that was found in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali, Mardan (near Peshawar in present-day Pakistan, historical Gandhara). It is perhaps "the oldest extant manuscript in Indian mathematics ". [4] For some portions a carbon-date was proposed of AD 224–383 ...

  8. Tocharian script - Wikipedia

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    Sample of Tocharian script on a tablet. The Tocharian script, [7] also known as Central Asian slanting Gupta script or North Turkestan Brāhmī, [8] is an abugida which uses a system of diacritical marks to associate vowels with consonant symbols.

  9. Sanaa manuscript - Wikipedia

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    The Sanaa palimpsest (also Ṣanʽā’ 1 or DAM 01-27.1) or Sanaa Quran is one of the oldest Quranic manuscripts in existence. [1] Part of a sizable cache of Quranic and non-Quranic fragments discovered in Yemen during a 1972 restoration of the Great Mosque of Sanaa, the manuscript was identified as a palimpsest Quran in 1981 as it is written on parchment and comprises two layers of text.