_ THE SAKAI AND SEMANG DIALECTS. 41 
1249 roots arranged alphabetically. The author explains that it 
is possible that in some cases further enquiry or rather fuller 
material for enquiry may show that some of his roots may 
require correction, but contends that for his purpose the 
arrangement adopted is the most useful one. All hypothetical 
root-forms are enclosed in brackets. All Malay loan-words are 
omitted. 
Next follow the only available ‘ texts’ viz:— those given 
by Skeat in Berisi by Clifford in Sen-oi and by de Morgan in 
Sakai of 8. Kerbou and 8. Raya, and in‘Séman.’ The transla- 
tions are given in each case. 
The next thirty pages contain a discussion of the ‘ Gram- 
matik.’ 
The fourth subsection of the first part is headed “ The re- 
“lation of the dialects to one another.” ‘The author begins 
as follows:— ‘The questions as to the relation of these 
‘“‘janzuages to one another and to their correct grouping are 
‘the more important since the races who speak them have no 
“ethnological unity. The Sakai although sharply distinguished 
“from Mongolian races have a more Mongoloid character than 
“have the Semang. The Semang on the other hand belong 
“as even B. H. Meyer’s very critical examination shows, 
“to the Negritoes. Our examination has therefore a further 
“meaning in that it aids in answering the question whether 
“ these Semang-Negritoes have a language of their own.” Inthe 
next nine pages the author examines in detail the similarities 
and differences in the vocabularies of the various dialects and 
concludes that, as far as the present state of our knowledge 
allows us to judge, the Sakai and Semang languages are one. 
He then points out the two marked groups into which this 
one language falls. In the one group come the words, etc., 
collected from ‘Quedah-Semang’ Semang of Tjoh. Steven’s 
_ Semang, Semang of Ulu Selama, Mikonho-Maclay’s Ulu Kelan- 
-tan and Ulu Petani, Tomlin’s Semang ‘Jooroo-Semang,’ in the 
_. other words, etc., collected from Bersisi, Palou, Ulu Indau, Sakel of 
_ Sungei Raya, Clifford’s Sen-oi, Sakai a die on bon. Sémang of de 
_ Morgan, Clifford’s Tembe. Perak Semang and Chanderiang Sakai. 
The. author now points out that it is not.safe to believe 
that collectors of vocabularies who have called certain races 
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R. A. Soe.. No. 39, 1903. 
