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Romance: mingled dialects of French and Italian . Savu , Sawu . Malayan: dialect of Negrito character, spoken in an island W. of Timor. Di .: 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 “Evangel i an Harmony.” (2) Low-German of middle ages, represented by the story called “Reynard the Fox.” (3) Modern Low-German : ( a ) Saxon, of Lower Saxony. ( b ) East-Saxon (Brandenburg, Pomerania). ( c ) West-Saxon, i.e. , Westphalian. ⁂ Saxon is cla ed by French philologists as Cimbrian . See Misnian .