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Hiligaynon to Tagalog Translation

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Hiligaynon phrases with Tagalog translations

402 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.

HiligaynonTagalogEnglish
Maayong agaMagandang umagaGood morning
Maayong haponMagandang haponGood afternoon
Maayong gab-iMagandang gabiGood evening
Maayong adlawMagandang arawGood day
Kamusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Maayo manMabuti namanI'm fine
HalongPaalamGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Madamo gid nga salamatMaraming salamatThank you very much
Wala sang anumanWalang anumanYou're welcome
All 402 phrases

How Hiligaynon and Tagalog differ

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

No. Hiligaynon is a Bisayan language and Tagalog is not, and the everyday vocabulary is different from the first word — Kamusta aside, a Tagalog speaker gets little from spoken Ilonggo. Comprehension runs the other way for the usual reason: Tagalog is the language of school and national media.

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. Tagalog is the basis of Filipino, the national language, so its vocabulary reaches every province through school and media — which is why speakers of the other seven usually understand it and the reverse is rarely true.

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.

  • wala

    Hiligaynon: Left — the direction. It also carries the 'none' sense, so only context separates them.

    Tagalog: Nothing, none, absent.

  • pila

    Hiligaynon: How many.

    Tagalog: A queue, a line of people waiting.

  • bukid

    Hiligaynon: A mountain.

    Tagalog: A field, farmland, the countryside.

  • kalayo

    Hiligaynon: Fire.

    Tagalog: Distance — parsed as ka- plus layo, 'far'.

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 Tagalog 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 287 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Tagalog. It matched or came close 66.2% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Hiligaynon → Tagalog scored 66.2% and Tagalog → Hiligaynon scored 45.0% — a gap of 21.2 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 Tagalog?
Hiligaynon and Tagalog both belong to the Central Philippine group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Hiligaynon to Bisayan, Tagalog to Tagalog. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.
Can a Hiligaynon speaker understand Tagalog?
No. Hiligaynon is a Bisayan language and Tagalog is not, and the everyday vocabulary is different from the first word — Kamusta aside, a Tagalog speaker gets little from spoken Ilonggo. Comprehension runs the other way for the usual reason: Tagalog is the language of school and national media.
How accurate is Hiligaynon to Tagalog translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 287 translatable entries in our Hiligaynon–Tagalog phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Tagalog 66.2% of the time. It is weakest on things to buy (17%) and strongest on health & emergency (100%). The direction matters too: Tagalog → Hiligaynon scored 45.0%, a gap of 21.2 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: 134 of the entries in our Hiligaynon–Tagalog phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Salamat (thank you), Isa (one), Tatlo (three), Apat (four). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
Which Hiligaynon words mean something different in Tagalog?
wala — Left — the direction. It also carries the 'none' sense, so only context separates them in Hiligaynon, nothing, none, absent in Tagalog; pila — How many in Hiligaynon, a queue, a line of people waiting in Tagalog; bukid — A mountain in Hiligaynon, a field, farmland, the countryside in Tagalog. We document 11 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 Tagalog to Hiligaynon as well?
Yes — use the Tagalog to Hiligaynon page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Hiligaynon → Tagalog scored 66.2% and Tagalog → Hiligaynon scored 45.0%. 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. 402 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.