Savoy.
Romance: mingled dialects of French and Italian.
Savu, Sawu.
Malayan: dialect of Negrito character, spoken in an island W. of Timor. Diss.: Crawfurd’s “Malay Grammar.”
Sawanno, see [Shawanoe].
Saxon (Sachsisch).
Teutonic: name for typical dialect of old Low-German, now extinct, formerly spoken in Schleswig and Holstein, and thence brought to England; it was closely allied to Gothic and Allemannic. Upper Saxon is a dialect of High-German. See “Gedichte,” by Döring, Leipsig, 1835. See Anglo-Saxon.
The literary remains, or stages of language, run thus:—
(1) Old Low-German, or Old Saxon, extinct in 9th century, but represented by the “Evangelian Harmony.”
(2) Low-German of middle ages, represented by the story called “Reynard the Fox.”