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Sabæans.

Semitic: indigines of S. Arabia; they have much lighter skins than the Himyarites.

Sah-issah-dinne.

American: “People of the rising Sun”; native name of the Chepewyans.

Shamanism.

Persianword: “idolatry,” as applied to the Samoieds, &c., of Siberia.

Shropshire.

A dialect ofEnglish. See Audelay’s “Poems” (Percy Soc.); and Hartshorne’s “Salopia Antiqua.”W. W. S.

Solima.

African: a language likeSusoo.H. C.

Soosoo,seeSusoo.

Sour,seeSavara.

Soyotes.

Name for Chinese Samoieds.

Styrian.

Slavonic: sub-dialect ofIllyrian, spoken in the Austrian province of Styria.G. R.

Suio-Gothic.

Another name forOld Swedish. See Ihre: “Glossarium Suio-Gothicum,” 2 vols. fol., Upsal, 1769.W. W. S.

Swan,seeSuanic.

Syrmian.

Slavonic: a dialect ofServian, spoken in Syrmia, a district of Slavonia, and elsewhere.G. R.


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