Semang

[ si-mahng ]

noun

, plural Se·mangs, (especially collectively) Se·mang.

1. a member of a Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula.

Example Sentences

The parallel between Semang and Arunta, therefore, helps us in two ways.

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To these significant characteristics has to be added the special birth custom and belief of the Semang pygmies.

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Among the Semang people, their totemic belief and custom do not carry with them a superstructure of society.

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If this is so, it is clear that the parallel between Semang and Arunta totemism is considerably closer than at first appears.

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The Semang of Perak is somewhat less rude, and speaks a different dialect.

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