Negrito
noun
a member of any of various Indigenous peoples of Africa, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islands, and southern India.
Negritos
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pluralof Negrito.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The Dance of the Negritos from Puebla, and the Danza de los Diablos, from the Costa Chica of Guerrero, symbolize the resistance that Indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities lead in the face of marginalization and discrimination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
These people are found in a patchwork quilt of populations on islands of Southeast Asia, including Melanesians in Papua New Guinea, aboriginals in Australia, and Negritos in the Philippines.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2012
Those relict Negritos of Southeast Asia may be the last survivors of the source population from which New Guinea was colonized.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The Semang Negritos persisted as hunter-gatherers trading with neighboring farmers but adopted an Austroasiatic language from those farmers—much as, we shall see, Philippine Negrito and African Pygmy hunter-gatherers adopted languages from their farmer trading partners.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In reality, there are only a few New Guinean—like populations in the Philippine/western Indonesia area, notably the Negritos living in mountainous areas of the Philippines.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
