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

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

Semang said: "Well, I will go tomorrow to search for something to eat."

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

Semang heard him, but was afraid to move, and slept no more.

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

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

From Folklore as an Historical Science by Gomme, George Laurence

A scanty garment of bark cloth was formerly worn, and, like the Semang, they make fringed girdles from a black thread-like fungus.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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 Gomme, George Laurence

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 Tyson, Edward