According to anthropologists, this people actually belong to an overall tribe known as the Tayal, which can be further divided into the Atayal subtribe and the smaller Sedek subtribe. Below the two subtribes there are 26 different subgroups.
如今大家習稱為同一族群的「泰雅族」，根據人類學者的研究，其實可分成「泰雅」亞族，及「賽德克」亞族兩大系統，底下又分成二十六個不同的群。