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Cebuano to Kapampangan Translation

Translate Cebuano to Kapampangan instantly, then check the result against a 372-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Cebuano phrases with Kapampangan translations

372 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.

CebuanoKapampanganEnglish
Maayong buntagMayap a abakGood morning
Maayong haponMayap a gatpanapunGood afternoon
Maayong gabiiMayap a bengiGood evening
Maayong adlawMayap a aldoGood day
Kumusta ka?Komusta ka?How are you?
Maayo raMayap ku namanI'm fine
Ayo-ayoMako na kuGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Daghang salamatDakal a salamatThank you very much
Walay sapayanAla yang anumanYou're welcome
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How Cebuano and Kapampangan differ

Cebuano and Kapampangan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Cebuano 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 Cebuano 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.

Cebuano is the largest Bisayan language and the lingua franca of most of Mindanao, so a great deal of what is loosely called 'Bisaya' online is Cebuano specifically. 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.

  • apo

    Cebuano: A grandchild.

    Kapampangan: A grandparent — the opposite generation to the Tagalog sense.

  • daya

    Cebuano: Deceit, cheating.

    Kapampangan: Blood.

  • banwa

    Cebuano: 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 Cebuano 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 257 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Kapampangan. It matched or came close 50.2% of the time.

We measured the reverse direction too: Kapampangan → Cebuano scored 52.9% against 50.2% here. The two are close enough that neither direction is clearly better.

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Common questions

Is Cebuano the same as Kapampangan?
Cebuano and Kapampangan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Cebuano 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 Cebuano speaker understand Kapampangan?
No. Speakers of Cebuano 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 Cebuano to Kapampangan translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 257 translatable entries in our Cebuano–Kapampangan phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Kapampangan 50.2% of the time. It is weakest on market & money (0%) 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: 45 of the entries in our Cebuano–Kapampangan phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Salamat (thank you), Lima (five), Siyam (nine), Anak (child). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
Which Cebuano words mean something different in Kapampangan?
apo — A grandchild in Cebuano, a grandparent — the opposite generation to the Tagalog sense in Kapampangan; daya — Deceit, cheating in Cebuano, blood in Kapampangan; banwa — A town, a homeland in Cebuano, a year in Kapampangan. We document 3 of these for this pair. They are where the translator is least reliable, because a word it does not recognise is passed through unchanged and can land in the other language as a real word with an unrelated meaning.
How many people speak Cebuano?
The 2020 Philippine census recorded Cebuano as the language generally spoken at home in about 1.72 million households, and 8.0% of the household population identified as ethnically Cebuano. PSA counts 'Cebuano' and 'Bisaya/Binisaya' as separate census categories, so the true Cebuano-speaking total is higher than the Cebuano row alone. Figures elsewhere claiming far larger totals for these languages are generally not supported by census data.
Can I translate Kapampangan to Cebuano as well?
Yes — use the Kapampangan to Cebuano page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Cebuano → Kapampangan scored 50.2% and Kapampangan → Cebuano scored 52.9%. 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 Cebuano speaker has reviewed this data yet. 372 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.