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Bikol to Kapampangan Translation

Translate Bikol to Kapampangan instantly, then check the result against a 368-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Bikol phrases with Kapampangan translations

368 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.

BikolKapampanganEnglish
Marhay na agaMayap a abakGood morning
Marhay na haponMayap a gatpanapunGood afternoon
Marhay na banggiMayap a bengiGood evening
Marhay na aldawMayap a aldoGood day
Kumusta ka?Komusta ka?How are you?
Marhay manMayap ku namanI'm fine
PaaramMako na kuGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Dakulang salamatDakal a salamatThank you very much
Daing ano manAla yang anumanYou're welcome
All 368 phrases

How Bikol and Kapampangan differ

Bikol and Kapampangan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Bikol in the Central Philippine group, Kapampangan in the Central 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 Kapampangan 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. Kapampangan is the outlier of the group: its question words (nanu, ninu, nokarin) and its word for name (lagyu) share no root with any of its neighbours, and its pronouns cliticise in ways Tagalog speakers find unparseable.

Words that exist in both languages and mean different things

These are where confident readers get caught, and where the translator above is least reliable — a word it does not recognise is passed through unchanged, which can land in the other language as a real word with an unrelated meaning.

  • banwa

    Bikol: A town, a homeland.

    Kapampangan: A year.

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 Kapampangan 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 253 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Kapampangan. It matched or came close 56.5% of the time.

We measured the reverse direction too: Kapampangan → Bikol scored 54.2% against 56.5% here. The two are close enough that neither direction is clearly better.

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Common questions

Is Bikol the same as Kapampangan?
Bikol and Kapampangan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Bikol in the Central Philippine group, Kapampangan in the Central 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 Kapampangan?
No. Speakers of Bikol and Kapampangan 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 Kapampangan translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 253 translatable entries in our Bikol–Kapampangan phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Kapampangan 56.5% of the time. It is weakest on market & money (14%) and strongest on the body (83%). 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: 46 of the entries in our Bikol–Kapampangan phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Salamat (thank you), Apat (four), Lima (five), Siyam (nine). 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 Kapampangan to Bikol as well?
Yes — use the Kapampangan to Bikol page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Bikol → Kapampangan scored 56.5% and Kapampangan → Bikol scored 54.2%. The two are close enough that neither is clearly better.
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. 368 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.