Historical Linguistics and Philippine Hunter-Gatherers

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10 - Historical Linguistics and Philippine Hunter-Gatherers

from Part III - Tropical Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2020

Lawrence A. Reid

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Tom Güldemann ,

Patrick McConvell and

Richard A. Rhodes

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Tom Güldemann: Affiliation:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Patrick McConvell: Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Richard A. Rhodes: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

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In addition to the Negrito groups, who are traditionally all hunter-gatherers, there is one non-Negrito hunter-gatherer group reported for the Philippines who were also traditionally hunter-gatherers. These are the Tasaday, a group of formerly cave-dwelling Manobo, first reported in the early 1970s and frequently portrayed in the popular press as a hoax. The linguistic evidence for the authenticity of the Tasaday as a distinct ethnolinguistic group is irrefutable and has been dealt with in various articles (Reid 1992, 1996, 1997, 2018).

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Information: The Language of Hunter-Gatherers , pp. 231 - 261

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