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Semang, n. and a.|səˈmaŋ|
Also Samang.
[Mal.]
A. n. (A member of) a Negrito people inhabiting the interior of the Malay peninsula.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people.
1812[see Polynesian a.]. 1814[see Papuan n. 1]. 1839T. J. Newbold Brit. Settlements in Straits of Malacca II. xv. 377 It would appear that the Semang does not differ much in personal appearance from the Jakun. Ibid. 379 The Semang women..are said to be in common. 1860Mayne Reid Odd People 415 The Samangs—a tribe inhabiting the mountainous parts of the Malayan peninsula—are also a negro or negrillo race. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 485/2 The Vaalpens represent..a state of arrested development analogous to that of the Samangs and other Negritoes of the Malay Peninsula. 1920R. J. Wilkinson Hist. Peninsula Malays (ed. 2) i. 2 The word Semang..has come to be regarded as contemptuous. No negrito will answer to it. Ibid. i. 3 For practical purposes a Semang is a nomadic primitive Peninsular negrito whose numeral system stops at two. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (ed. 2) x. 424 Asia is particularly rich in tribal societies with ‘internally marginal’ cultures. Examples are..Palaung, Kachin, Moi, Semang, Sakai, and many others in the states of Farther India and Malaya. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 46/2 Semang, Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula... In the 1970s their population was estimated to be less than 3,000, with only about 100 in Thailand (where they are known as Ngok, or Ngo). |