"It is apparent to any unbaised observer that the Tasaday have a form of speech that is distinct from the surrounding communities."

For more of Reid's work.

• the Tasaday are a separate people
• the Tasaday were forced into the forest to escape disease
• the Tasaday had had contact with Dafal's father
• the Tasafeng died out in the earthquake of 1955
• the Tasaday shifted from monogamous marriage patterns to polygyny