“Thank you very much” in every Philippine language
Thank you very much across 9 languages, and what the differences tell you.
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Side by side
| Language | Thank you very much |
|---|---|
| English | Thank you very much |
| Tagalog | Maraming salamat |
| Ilocano | Agyamanak unay |
| Cebuano | Daghang salamat |
| Hiligaynon | Madamo gid nga salamat |
| Waray | Damo nga salamat |
| Bikol | Dakulang salamat |
| Kapampangan | Dakal a salamat |
| Pangasinan | Dakel ya salamat |
What the pattern shows
The intensifier is the tell: daghan (Cebuano), madamo (Hiligaynon), damo (Waray), dakula (Bikol), dakal (Kapampangan), dakel (Pangasinan) — all meaning 'many', none of them the Tagalog 'marami'.
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 84 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.