单词 | tasaday |
释义 | Tasadayn. a. (A member of) a people living on the Philippine island of Mindanao (see note). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Philippines > [noun] Tagalog1704 Igorot1821 Pangasinan1840 Ifugao1859 Ibanag1885 Batak1904 Yami1912 Maranao1957 Tasaday1971 the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Philippines > [adjective] Tagalog1808 Moro1879 Ifugao1900 Yami1953 Maranao1964 Ifugaon1968 Tasaday1971 the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > southern Philippines Manobo1912 Maranao1962 Tasaday1971 Tasaday1971 1971 Guardian 19 July 3/1 Dark skinned, fruit-eating men, known as Tasadays..near Lake Sebu, in Cotabato Province..south of Manila. The tribesman..number about sixty... Their isolation was total until 1966. 1972 National Geographic Aug. 239 (caption) The staple of the Tasaday diet..is a wild yam. 1973 E. Hyams Final Agenda ix. 118 The pacific and gentle manners of the Tasaday people, a Stone Age vestige still living on Mindanao. 1975 New Society 4 Dec. 559/2 In the early 1960s, Dafal, a wandering hunter, came across a small and timid band of food-gatherers, calling themselves Tasaday, living deep in the forest reaches of southern Mindanao in the Philippines. 1988 Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 29/3 The world's press flocked to the remote rain forests of the Philippines to meet the gentle Tasaday tribe, which seemed untouched by civilisation... But now they have been exposed as an elaborate fraud cooked up by a playboy millionaire and a friend of ex-president Marcos. b. The Manobo language of this people. The Tasaday were said to have isolated themselves (allegedly in flight from a plague epidemic) some eight hundred years ago, forsaking their skills in rice-agriculture, metallurgy, etc., and taking up a less advanced form of existence (see quots.). Their ‘discovery’ and identification as a separate ethnic group were subsequently shown to be fraudulent. ΚΠ 1971 Philippine Jrnl. Linguistics 2 3 A comparison of the lexical items of Tasaday..reveals that the language has most cognates with..B'lit Manobo. 1972 National Geographic Aug. 232/2 Igna..translated from T'boli.. to Tasaday. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1971 |
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