Burmans
Meaning
of Burman
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
The Shan, who call themselves Tai, are ethnically far more similar to the Thais across the border in northern Thailand than they are to the Burmans.
If Burma meant only the central plains and Myanmar the Burmans and all the other nationalities, how could there be, according the Myanmar Language Commission, a “Myanmar language”?