Semang

American  

[si-mahng] / sɪˈmɑŋ /

noun

• Semangs,
  plural
• Semang
  plural

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Semang
  plural
• Semangs
  plural

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Example Sentences

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Semang Semangs

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

There seem to be no culture elements in the ethnography of the Sakay that are not found in the life of Semang, Jakun, or allied peoples.

From The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon by David Prescott Barrows

After bringing all the goods from the house to the prahu, Semang started down-stream.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Carl Lumholtz

These are reported under a variety of names, of which Semang and Sakaí are perhaps the best known.

From Negritos of Zambales by William Allan Reed

In the Malay Peninsula they are called Semang.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

Farther south are the Semangs of Kedah, with an average stature of four feet ten inches, and the Jakuns of Singapore, rising to five feet.

From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson

In the case of the Semangs we have the kinless totemic belief and custom existing within a kinless society.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme

East of Bali, however, the Orang Binua re-appear, and here the type is that of the Semangs.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

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