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Bikol to Waray Translation

Translate Bikol to Waray instantly, then check the result against a 373-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Bikol phrases with Waray translations

373 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.

BikolWarayEnglish
Marhay na agaMaupay nga agaGood morning
Marhay na haponMaupay nga kulopGood afternoon
Marhay na banggiMaupay nga gab-iGood evening
Marhay na aldawMaupay nga adlawGood day
Kumusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Marhay manMaupay manI'm fine
PaaramPag-ihaGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Dakulang salamatDamo nga salamatThank you very much
Daing ano manWaray sapayanYou're welcome
All 373 phrases

How Bikol and Waray differ

Bikol and Waray both belong to the Central Philippine group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Bikol to Bikol, Waray to Bisayan. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.

No. Speakers of Bikol and Waray 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. Waray runs a systematic s→h shift against its Bisayan neighbours — sin-o becomes hin-o, sarili becomes kalugaringon — which is the quickest way to tell written Waray from Hiligaynon.

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 Waray 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 Waray. It matched or came close 59.6% of the time.

We measured the reverse direction too: Waray → Bikol scored 60.0% against 59.6% here. The two are close enough that neither direction is clearly better.

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Common questions

Is Bikol the same as Waray?
Bikol and Waray both belong to the Central Philippine group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Bikol to Bikol, Waray to Bisayan. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.
Can a Bikol speaker understand Waray?
No. Speakers of Bikol and Waray 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 Waray translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 280 translatable entries in our Bikol–Waray phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Waray 59.6% of the time. It is weakest on everyday verbs (15%) and strongest on nature & weather (88%). 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: 139 of the entries in our Bikol–Waray phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Kumusta ka? (how are you?), Salamat (thank you), Ano ini? (what is this?), Tulo (three). 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 Waray to Bikol as well?
Yes — use the Waray to Bikol page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Bikol → Waray scored 59.6% and Waray → Bikol scored 60.0%. 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. 373 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.