Ilocano→Tagalog
Free Ilocano and Tagalog translation

Hiligaynon to Bikol Translation

Translate Hiligaynon to Bikol instantly, then check the result against a 395-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

0 / 5,000
The translation appears here.

Ctrl + Enter to translate · Ctrl + Shift + S to swap. Output is machine-generated — check anything that matters.

Hiligaynon phrases with Bikol translations

395 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.

HiligaynonBikolEnglish
Maayong agaMarhay na agaGood morning
Maayong haponMarhay na haponGood afternoon
Maayong gab-iMarhay na banggiGood evening
Maayong adlawMarhay na aldawGood day
Kamusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Maayo manMarhay manI'm fine
HalongPaaramGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Madamo gid nga salamatDakulang salamatThank you very much
Wala sang anumanDaing ano manYou're welcome
All 395 phrases

How Hiligaynon and Bikol differ

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

No. Speakers of Hiligaynon and Bikol 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.

Hiligaynon — Ilonggo to its speakers — is the Western Bisayan language of Panay and Negros Occidental, and is close enough to Cebuano that the two are routinely mistaken for one language. 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.

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.

  • tabang

    Hiligaynon: Bland, tasteless — written tab-ang. The word for help is bulig.

    Bikol: Help.

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 Hiligaynon nor Bikol 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 Bikol. It matched or came close 58.9% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Hiligaynon → Bikol scored 58.9% and Bikol → Hiligaynon scored 51.8% — a gap of 7.1 points on the same phrase set, so this direction is the one to trust more.

Full results, category by category

Common questions

Is Hiligaynon the same as Bikol?
Hiligaynon and Bikol both belong to the Central Philippine group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Hiligaynon to Bisayan, Bikol to Bikol. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.
Can a Hiligaynon speaker understand Bikol?
No. Speakers of Hiligaynon and Bikol 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 Hiligaynon to Bikol translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 280 translatable entries in our Hiligaynon–Bikol phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Bikol 58.9% of the time. It is weakest on somewhere to stay (17%) and strongest on months (92%). The direction matters too: Bikol → Hiligaynon scored 51.8%, a gap of 7.1 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: 145 of the entries in our Hiligaynon–Bikol phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Salamat (thank you), Ano ini? (what is this?), Apat (four), Lima (five). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
How many people speak Hiligaynon?
Hiligaynon is spoken mainly in Iloilo, Negros Occidental, Capiz, Guimaras. The 2020 census reports ethnicity rather than a separate speaker count for it, so we do not publish a speaker figure we cannot source. Figures elsewhere claiming far larger totals for these languages are generally not supported by census data.
Can I translate Bikol to Hiligaynon as well?
Yes — use the Bikol to Hiligaynon page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Hiligaynon → Bikol scored 58.9% and Bikol → Hiligaynon scored 51.8%. 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.

Related translators

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 Hiligaynon speaker has reviewed this data yet. 395 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.