Malayan: spoken by races of Negro origin, in the peninsula of Malacca. Sub-dialects are known as Semang-Jan and Semang-Juru. See [Kedah].

Samarang.

Malayan: sub-dialect of Java.

Samaritan.

Semitic: extinct dialect of Aramaic, closely allied to Hebrew, and by some regarded as an older form of that tongue than the Biblical Hebrew, being uninfluenced by Chaldee. It is written in an alphabet similar to the Phœnician, but of more ornate character. An ancient version of the Pentateuch in Samaritan is still preserved at Nablous, the ancient Shechem. Grammar by Nicholls, London, 1858.

Samboe, under [Z].

Samen, see [Suomelaini].

Samnite.

Archaic dialect of ancient Italy, known only by inscriptions. See [Oscan].

Samoan.