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单词 Negrito
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Definition of Negrito in English:

Negrito

nounPlural Negritos nɪˈɡriːtəʊnəˈɡrēdō
  • A member of a black people of short stature native to the Austronesian region.

    (分布在澳斯特罗尼西亚语系地区的)矮小黑人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Intermarriage with Austronesians, and the adoption of their technologies might have led the so-called Negritos to adopt Austronesian languages, but a substrate of vocabulary from the earlier languages remains in some of them.
    • The tribal Negritos do not eat visitors anymore (if indeed they ever did).
    • The first people in the Philippines, the Negritos, are believed to have come to the islands 30,000 years ago from Borneo and Sumatra, making their way across then-existing land bridges.
    • This calls into question not only whether the Negritos are in any way related to the African Pygmies, but whether they are really even related to each other.
    • The Sentineli are Negritos - or, in somewhat un-PC terms, Pygmies.
    • Controversial Australian historian Keith Windschuttle recently published a definitive study on Australia's short-stature tribes, referred to variously as Pygmies, Negritos, Tasmanoids, and Barrineans.
    • The population of India comprises of six main ethnic groups namely, the Negrito, Proto-austroloids, Mongoloids, Mediterranean or Dravidian, Western brachycephals and the Nordic Aryans.
    • The country's indigenous population includes the orang asli, which is commonly divided into the Negritos (a nomadic hunting people), the Senoi (an agrarian people), and the Jakun (an agrarian people).
    • According to Teuku Jacob, if the height of the Negritos is roughly between 155 and 163 cm, they would be called pygmoid.
    • However, various biogenetic studies of the Negritos have indicated their affinities with other Asian populations.

Origin

Spanish, diminutive of negro 'black' (see Negro); compare with Negrillo.

Definition of Negrito in US English:

Negrito

nounnəˈɡrēdō
  • A member of a black people of short stature native to the Austronesian region.

    (分布在澳斯特罗尼西亚语系地区的)矮小黑人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The country's indigenous population includes the orang asli, which is commonly divided into the Negritos (a nomadic hunting people), the Senoi (an agrarian people), and the Jakun (an agrarian people).
    • According to Teuku Jacob, if the height of the Negritos is roughly between 155 and 163 cm, they would be called pygmoid.
    • Controversial Australian historian Keith Windschuttle recently published a definitive study on Australia's short-stature tribes, referred to variously as Pygmies, Negritos, Tasmanoids, and Barrineans.
    • The tribal Negritos do not eat visitors anymore (if indeed they ever did).
    • Intermarriage with Austronesians, and the adoption of their technologies might have led the so-called Negritos to adopt Austronesian languages, but a substrate of vocabulary from the earlier languages remains in some of them.
    • The population of India comprises of six main ethnic groups namely, the Negrito, Proto-austroloids, Mongoloids, Mediterranean or Dravidian, Western brachycephals and the Nordic Aryans.
    • However, various biogenetic studies of the Negritos have indicated their affinities with other Asian populations.
    • The first people in the Philippines, the Negritos, are believed to have come to the islands 30,000 years ago from Borneo and Sumatra, making their way across then-existing land bridges.
    • This calls into question not only whether the Negritos are in any way related to the African Pygmies, but whether they are really even related to each other.
    • The Sentineli are Negritos - or, in somewhat un-PC terms, Pygmies.

Origin

Spanish, diminutive of negro ‘black’ (see Negro); compare with Negrillo.

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