The Ancient Language of Lakan Dula of Tondo
Several foreign
and local historians, linguists, and well known archeologists are theorizing
that that ancient Tagalog which is closely similar to the Waray dialect
presently spoken in the hinterland of Samar today is the official language of
the pre-hispanic Kingdom of Tondo whose last reigning king is Lakan Dula.
One proof of this
is expounded in an article entitled: "The mystery of the ancient
inscription" by Rolando Borrinaga published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The article talks about the historically famous "Calatagan Pot" which
is a burial jar of the Ancient Tagalogs whose seat is in the Kingdom of Tondo.
The burial pot which dates back from 12th to 15th century has mysterious
markings which for so many years historians and linguists have not found a
comprehensible interpretation. The historians found out that the pot is used in
ancient rituals of sending a dead person's soul to the next life. They used lot
of methods to decipher the message in the pot but still they can not connect
the burial rituals and the messages, until they used the present Waray dialect
of people from the hinterland of Samar. The ancient messages became very clear:
Nabuká na ba? /
Labâ ma na lâ, dakit /
Nínu ma niya mangga /
Gakatkat hiya lâ ngay-an /
Bayâ ha dakit na, nu? /
Da kalág binagat, ha?
Interpreted roughly in English, it goes like:
Is it open now for sure? [the gateway to the spirit
underworld]/
Take it as a gain already, dakit [Tag., balete] tree/
That [the soul] confused you for a mango tree/
[It] just crossed out of fear [to your domain] alone, is
that so?/
Leave the dakit tree now, will you?/
Shame/Bring [back] the soul that you [were told to]
encounter, okay?
Lakan Dula used
ancient Tagalog/Waray dialect "Kan" (which means "owned")
in designating a plantation or vast track of land with a settlement of loyal
relatives and workers, for his children and grand children. Kan Daba (today's
Candaba) is a tract of fertile land near Tondo but now part of Pampanga, was
given to Daba. Kan David (now known as Candawid in Isla de Batag, Northern
Samar), was the plantation given to David. Kan Dola (now known as Candola in
San Luis, Pampanga) was assigned to Dola. Take note also that Daba, David and Dola
all start with letter "D" which somehow shows a systematic design of
Lakan Dula to keep tract of his ancestors and successors whom he has been
sending to different places with known friendly settlers and relatives within
the sea and rivers routes to keep them safe from the on - going Spanish
prosecutions.
Another article seem to point that ancient Tagalog came from
the Samar/ Leyte Waray/Hebrew dialect:
Tagalog
(pronounced təˈɡɑːlɒɡ in English) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first
language by a third of the population of the Philippines and as a second
language by most of the rest. It is the first language of the Philippine region
IV (CALABARZON and MIMAROPA) and of Metro Manila. Its standardized form,
commonly called Filipino, is the national language and one of two official
languages of the Philippines. It is related to—though not readily intelligible
with—other Austronesian languages such as Malay, Javanese, and Hawaiian. The
word Tagalog derived from tagailog, from tagá- meaning "native of"
and ílog meaning "river". Thus, it means "river dweller".
Very little is known about the history of the language. However, according to
linguists such as Dr. David Zorc and Dr. Robert Blust, the Tagalogs originated,
along with their Central Philippine cousins, from Northeastern Mindanao or
Eastern Visayas.
The western
writers garlanded the Philippine land with more names such as Maniolas, Ophir,
Islas del Oriente, Islas del Poniente, Archipelago de San Lazaro, Islas de
Luzones(Island of Mortars), Archipelago de Magallanes and Archipelago de
Legaspi. The western writers and ocean navigators called the islands Ophir before the Western peoplearrived and re-named
it as Felipinas from the name of King Felipe of Spain. When the first European
historian set their foot in the land of
Ophir , it was written by historian Gregorio F. Zaide in page 2 and page
24 of History of the Filipino People, that Padre Chirino an eminent Jesuit
historian found in Tagalog language that “it has the Mystery and obscurities of
the Hebrew language”. Since the Tagalog
dialect came from ancient Waray dialect. Therefore in the islands of Ophir the
people speaks
Ancient-Hebrew.(http://www.scribd.com/doc/78713593/Philippines-is-Ophir, retrieved
December 23, 2012)
The reason why the
eldest son of Lakan Dula, Batang Dula named the plantations he gave to his
three children as Kan David (Candawid), Kan Daba (Candaba) and Kan Dola
(Candola) using the word Kan , a Waray word for "owned", is a proof
enough that the Tagalog dialect comes from the ancient Waray dialect which is
based in the Hebrew dialect. Today, if you go to Isla de Batag (Batang) in
Laoang, Northern Samar, they have word
there "sibul" which is basically a Jewish word for a part of the
house, same way the islanders used them. This is probably the only placed in
the Philippines where "sibul" is used in that meaning, similar to the
original meaning of the Jews. Samar is indeed Ophir.
The first written
record of Tagalog is in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, written in the year
900 and uses fragments of the language along with Hebrew, Sanskrit, Malay, and
Javanese. Meanwhile, the first known book to be written in Tagalog is the Doctrina
Cristiana (Christian Doctrine) of 1593. It was written in Spanish and two
versions of Tagalog; one written in the Baybayin script and the other in the
Latin alphabet.
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