Semang is a 6 letter English word.
You can make 134 anagrams from letters in Semang (aegmns).
All possess the bow and arrow, though only the Semang and Aeta use poison.
The Semang of Perak is somewhat less rude, and speaks a different dialect.
To these significant characteristics has to be added the special birth custom and belief of the Semang pygmies.
A scanty garment of bark cloth was formerly worn, and, like the Semang, they make fringed girdles from a black thread-like fungus.
Many of these are as much fairer than the Malays as the Semang are darker.
If this is so, it is clear that the parallel between Semang and Arunta totemism is considerably closer than at first appears.
Among the Semang people, their totemic belief and custom do not carry with them a superstructure of society.
The parallel between Semang and Arunta, therefore, helps us in two ways.
The Sakai or Senoi are jungle folk, some of whom have mixed with Semang and other peoples.