MALITA, Davao del Sur (MindaNews / 06 November) — If you google “Tagakolu,” your search results would probably yield various spellings of the name. The most common question people ask is: “So, which one is the correct spelling?” To help find an answer, I started looking into published documents from the past to the present to see what I could find. I would like to share what I have discovered that helped me understand why there are several ways of writing the name of the Tagakolu people.
To start with, it was foreigners who first wrote down the name of the people when they first met them. The Spanish Jesuits wrote about them in the late 19th century and they wrote the name of the people as Tagacaolo. Fr. Quirico More mentioned them in his letter written in 1885 (Blair and Robertson 1903-1909, 43:199). After him Fr. Mateo Gisbert also wrote about them in 1886 (Ibid: 240) and Fr. Pablo Pastells in 1887 (Ibid: 279-80). All of them wrote Tagacaolo. When the Spanish Jesuits encountered the Tagakolu, they wrote the name that they heard and wrote it down using the Roman alphabet, which is the same alphabet we use today. But they wrote the name according to how they write in Spanish. For example, the Spanish language uses the letter “c” where we Filipinos would otherwise use “k”. The Spanish for chain is cadena, which we have appropriated and write as kadena. For the rest of the letters in the name, I can only speculate why they wrote it this way. What is clear is, at least based on historical documents, the Spanish wrote the name of the people as Tagacaolo.||| buy keflex online http://pharmax.net/image/custom/jpg/kefle||| no prescription pharmacy
In early 20th century, another foreigner wrote down the name of the people based on the Spanish spelling. The American anthropologist Fay-Cooper Cole published his research on the peoples of Mindanao and spelled the name of the people as Tagakaolo. His research was entitled “The Wild Tribes of Davao” (Fay-Cooper Cole 1913), a rather offensive description, I think, from a man whose nation forcibly occupied an independent nation. But that is another story. Going back to the name, Cole’s spelling only slightly differs from that of the Spanish spelling where he replaces the “c” with a “k.” Henceforth, various publications of both government institutions, non-government organizations and private individuals would write the name of the Tagakolu people as either Tagacaolo or Tagakaolo.
In the late 20th century, Catholic missionaries from Canada introduced another spelling of the people’s name. Their literacy program at the Sto. Rosario Parish of Malita in Davao del Sur published the workbook “Magbasa Kita” (Sto.||| buy spiriva online http://pharmax.net/image/custom/jpg/spiriv||| no prescription pharmacy