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Negrito|nɪˈgriːtəʊ|
[a. Sp. negrito, dim. of negro Negro.]
A member of a diminutive Negroid race existing in the Malayo-Polynesian region; esp. one of the Aëtas in the Philippine Islands.
1814J. Maver tr. Martinez de Zuñiga's Hist. View Philippine Islands I. p. xii, It is generally allowed that the language spoken by the Papuans..and Negritos of the Philippines, and adjacent islands, is totally different from the Malayan. 1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 88/1 The Negritos were probably the aborigines of the islands. 1865Lubbock Preh. Times xiii. (1869) 440 The Islands of the Pacific contain two very distinct races of men—the Negrito and the Polynesian. 1898F. T. Bullen in Nat. Rev. Aug. 857 The Negritos..are a diminutive black race with woolly hair, and undoubtedly of Papuan origin. 1928Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Feb. 90/4 The Negritoes..live at a primitive level, using wind-breaks and not houses. 1958J. Slimming Temiar Jungle ii. 22 Originally much of this part of the Nenggiri was Negrito country. 1965C. Shuttleworth Malayan Safari i. 16 Negritoes—a small negroid people with crinkly hair. 1969Age (Melbourne) 24 May 12/5 Mr. Robinson..takes it for granted that two ‘waves’ of Negritos, the Kartans and the Tartangans, preceded the Aborigines to Australia. 1972Guardian 22 Sept. 9/3 At the top of the mud bank was a tiny village of palm shelters, just high enough to sit in and here I met the Negritos, the oldest inhabitants of Malaysia, a short, negroid nomadic group.
b. In attributive or predicative use.
1843Latham in Proc. Philol. Soc. I. 37 The Languages of the Papuan or Negrito race. Ibid., The Samangs of the interior are Negrito. 1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 698/2 A description of a Negrito native of Erromango. |