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Hiligaynon to Kapampangan Translation

Translate Hiligaynon 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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Hiligaynon 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.

HiligaynonKapampanganEnglish
Maayong agaMayap a abakGood morning
Maayong haponMayap a gatpanapunGood afternoon
Maayong gab-iMayap a bengiGood evening
Maayong adlawMayap a aldoGood day
Kamusta ka?Komusta ka?How are you?
Maayo manMayap ku namanI'm fine
HalongMako na kuGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Madamo gid nga salamatDakal a salamatThank you very much
Wala sang anumanAla yang anumanYou're welcome
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How Hiligaynon and Kapampangan differ

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

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. 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

    Hiligaynon: A grandchild.

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

  • banwa

    Hiligaynon: 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 Hiligaynon 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 55.3% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Hiligaynon → Kapampangan scored 55.3% and Kapampangan → Hiligaynon scored 43.6% — a gap of 11.7 points on the same phrase set, so this direction is the one to trust more.

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Common questions

Is Hiligaynon the same as Kapampangan?
Hiligaynon and Kapampangan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Hiligaynon 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 Hiligaynon speaker understand Kapampangan?
No. Speakers of Hiligaynon 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 Hiligaynon to Kapampangan translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 257 translatable entries in our Hiligaynon–Kapampangan phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Kapampangan 55.3% of the time. It is weakest on market & money (14%) and strongest on the body (92%). The direction matters too: Kapampangan → Hiligaynon scored 43.6%, a gap of 11.7 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: 47 of the entries in our Hiligaynon–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.
Which Hiligaynon words mean something different in Kapampangan?
apo — A grandchild in Hiligaynon, a grandparent — the opposite generation to the Tagalog sense in Kapampangan; banwa — A town, a homeland in Hiligaynon, a year in Kapampangan. We document 2 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 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 Kapampangan to Hiligaynon as well?
Yes — use the Kapampangan to Hiligaynon page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Hiligaynon → Kapampangan scored 55.3% and Kapampangan → Hiligaynon scored 43.6%. 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.

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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 Hiligaynon 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.