THE SAKAI AND SEMANG DIALECTS. > _ 59 
the Mon-Annam languages of Indo-China. The author is fully 
justified in claiming to have established on purely linguistic 
rounds the existence of a distinct Semang group of dialects, 
spoken by and more or less co-extensive with the Negrito tribes 
of the North of the Peninsula. 
It is true that the border lines of language and physique 
do not quite coincide: there are mixed Sakai-Sémane tribes in 
Northern Perak who speak substantially Sakai dialects, while in 
Southern Kélantan and Trénggann there are tribes, described as 
having the sakai physical characteristics, whose dialects never- 
theless must be classified as Sémang. But the great point 
gained is that there is now proved to be a Sémang group of 
dialects originally distinct from Sakai and retaining a consider- 
able number of words for which no analogues have yet been 
found elsewhere. Instances of such Ww ords are (1) Keita. day,- 
(2) Kawau, “bird,” (3) mako, “egg,” (4) ekob, “snake,” (3) eh, 
“doo”, (6) yus, nyus, ‘tooth’, (7) chas, “hand,” which are in no 
way connected with the corresponding Sakai words (1) jish, (2) 
chim (or chep), (3) tap, (4) taju, (5) cho, (6) /Emun, (7) ték” (or tih). 
With the possible exception of No. 6, none of the above 
Sémang words appear to be Mon-Annam; while, of the Sakai, 
Nos 2, 3, 5,6, and 7 certainly are. 
The next section of the paper is occupied with a careful 
analysis of the mode of formation of the Mon-Annam languages. 
It is shown that the sounds correspond pretty closely with those 
of our aboriginal dialects; but the greatest stress is laid on the 
system of prefixes and infixes. In this place it is hardly prac- 
ticable to do more than illustrate this point by an example or two. _ 
drawn from the author’s specimens. Thus ‘in Cambojan, from a 
word pék, ‘to fall to pieces; to split up; division,” are derived 
the following :— — 
puék path, 
pampek “to divide” 
pamnék ** piece” 
prenék “piece” 
prapek “division” 
R. A.-Soc., No. 39, 1903 
