“Take care” in every Philippine language
Take care across 9 languages, and what the differences tell you.
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Side by side
| Language | Take care |
|---|---|
| English | Take care |
| Tagalog | Ingat ka |
| Ilocano | Agannadka |
| Cebuano | Ayo-ayo |
| Hiligaynon | Halong |
| Waray | Pag-ayo-ayo |
| Bikol | Mag-ingat ka |
| Kapampangan | Mingat ka |
| Pangasinan | Manalwar ka |
What the pattern shows
Cebuano ayo-ayo and Hiligaynon halong appear again as those languages' entry for goodbye. A Visayan farewell is usually an instruction to look after yourself rather than a word for parting.
No two languages here use the same word. That is unusual even on this list, and it is the clearest possible answer to whether these are dialects of one another.
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Where this comes from
This row is one of 161 concept pages drawn from a parallel set of everyday vocabulary held across nine languages. You can browse all of them, download the whole set under CC BY-SA 4.0, or paste text to find out which language it is.
Compiled from published general reference and pending review by native speakers. If something here is wrong in a language you speak, please tell us.