Hiligaynon to Cebuano Translation
Translate Hiligaynon to Cebuano free, up to 5,000 characters. Both are Philippine languages, and machine translation between them is weaker than between either and English — the engine routes through English internally.
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We have not written dedicated guidance for this pair yet, so this page is the tool alone. Our checked phrase data covers Philippine languages — start with the Ilocano to Tagalog translator.
About these two languages
Census figures below are from the 2020 Philippine Statistics Authority count of the language generally spoken at home.
Hiligaynon
Known to its speakers as Ilonggo
- Family
- Austronesian › Malayo-Polynesian › Central Philippine › Bisayan
- Spoken in
- Iloilo, Negros Occidental, Capiz, Guimaras, South Cotabato
Cebuano
Known to its speakers as Sinugbuanong Binisaya
- Family
- Austronesian › Malayo-Polynesian › Central Philippine › Bisayan
- Households (2020)
- 1,720,000
- Spoken in
- Cebu, Bohol, Negros Oriental, Leyte (west), Northern Mindanao
PSA counts 'Cebuano' and 'Bisaya/Binisaya' as separate census categories, so the true Cebuano-speaking total is higher than the Cebuano row alone.
When not to rely on this
- · Legal, medical or financial documents.
- · Anything going into print or public signage.
- · Names, addresses and place names — these are passed through or mangled unpredictably.
- · Regional Ilocano vocabulary outside the Ilocos Norte/Sur standard.
- · Anything where formality or respect matters, given the register drift above.
We measured this engine on 153 checked Ilocano phrases and it matched the human translation 57% of the time. See the full audit.
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