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Bikol to Ilocano Translation

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Bikol phrases with Ilocano translations

396 entries across 24 categories, compiled from published references rather than generated by the tool above. This set is compiled from general reference and is awaiting confirmation from native speakers, which is why each entry carries a pending-review marker.

BikolIlocanoEnglish
Marhay na agaNaimbag a bigatGood morning
Marhay na haponNaimbag a malemGood afternoon
Marhay na banggiNaimbag a rabiiGood evening
Marhay na aldawNaimbag nga aldawGood day
Kumusta ka?Kumustaka?How are you?
Marhay manNasayaat metI'm fine
PaaramAgpakadaakonGoodbye
SalamatAgyamanakThank you
Dakulang salamatAgyamanak unayThank you very much
Daing ano manAwan ania manYou're welcome
All 396 phrases

How Bikol and Ilocano differ

Bikol and Ilocano sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Bikol in the Central Philippine group, Ilocano in the Northern Luzon group. They are related in the way English and Russian are related — the same family, far enough apart that the relationship is a fact about history rather than something a speaker can use.

No. Speakers of Bikol and Ilocano cannot follow each other without having learned the other language. They share sentence structure and Spanish loanwords, which makes written text look more approachable than it is, and almost none of the high-frequency vocabulary.

Bikol is a dialect cluster rather than one uniform language. Standard Central Bikol (Naga) is what machine translation targets; Rinconada, Albay and Masbate forms are frequently passed through untouched. Ilocano marks its nouns with ti and ti, uses the linkers a and nga, and has a dual pronoun meaning 'you and I' that Tagalog lacks entirely.

Machine translation across Philippine languages fails in patterns rather than at random. We wrote up what those patterns are and why they happen, measured against Ilocano.

How accurate is it?

Neither Bikol nor Ilocano is a well-resourced language, and there is very little direct training data between them. The engine translates through English internally, so every result here is two translations stacked on top of each other, and the errors of the first are carried into the second.

We ran all 280 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Ilocano. It matched or came close 56.1% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Bikol → Ilocano scored 56.1% and Ilocano → Bikol scored 46.0% — a gap of 10.1 points on the same phrase set, so this direction is the one to trust more.

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Common questions

Is Bikol the same as Ilocano?
Bikol and Ilocano sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Bikol in the Central Philippine group, Ilocano in the Northern Luzon group. They are related in the way English and Russian are related — the same family, far enough apart that the relationship is a fact about history rather than something a speaker can use.
Can a Bikol speaker understand Ilocano?
No. Speakers of Bikol and Ilocano cannot follow each other without having learned the other language. They share sentence structure and Spanish loanwords, which makes written text look more approachable than it is, and almost none of the high-frequency vocabulary.
How accurate is Bikol to Ilocano translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 280 translatable entries in our Bikol–Ilocano phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Ilocano 56.1% of the time. It is weakest on getting around (14%) and strongest on months (92%). The direction matters too: Ilocano → Bikol scored 46.0%, a gap of 10.1 points. Treat it as a helpful draft, not a finished translation.
Why did the translation come back exactly the same as what I typed?
Usually because the engine did not recognise the word and echoed your input rather than failing visibly. But check before assuming it is broken: 72 of the entries in our Bikol–Ilocano phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Lima (five), Pito (seven), Walo (eight), Aldaw (day). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
How many people speak Bikol?
Bikol is spoken mainly in Camarines Sur, Albay, Sorsogon, Camarines Norte. The 2020 census reports ethnicity rather than a separate speaker count for it, so we do not publish a speaker figure we cannot source. Bikol is a dialect cluster. Machine translation targets Central Bikol (Naga) and handles Rinconada, Albay and Masbate varieties poorly. Figures elsewhere claiming far larger totals for these languages are generally not supported by census data.
Can I translate Ilocano to Bikol as well?
Yes — use the Ilocano to Bikol page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Bikol → Ilocano scored 56.1% and Ilocano → Bikol scored 46.0%. That is a real gap, so this direction is the more reliable of the two.
Is it free, and are there limits?
It is free with no account required. A single translation is capped at 5,000 characters, and there is a rate limit to keep the service available for everyone. There is no limit on how many translations you can do overall.

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Who maintains this

Compiled and maintained by John Smith. Last checked .

I compile Philippine-language phrase data from published references, check it against multiple sources, and measure the machine translation on this site rather than making claims about it. I am not a linguist. Entries I have not been able to confirm are marked as pending review rather than presented as verified.

No native Bikol speaker has reviewed this data yet. 396 phrasebook entries are marked pending review. See the phrasebook and its sources.

Translations are produced by a general-purpose machine translation engine and are not a substitute for a professional translator.