“What is your name?” in every Philippine language
What is your name? across 9 languages, and what the differences tell you.
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Side by side
| Language | What is your name? |
|---|---|
| English | What is your name? |
| Tagalog | Ano ang pangalan mo? |
| Ilocano | Ania ti naganmo? |
| Cebuano | Unsa'y imong ngalan? |
| Hiligaynon | Ano ang ngalan mo? |
| Waray | Ano an imo ngaran? |
| Bikol | Ano an pangaran mo? |
| Kapampangan | Nanu ing lagyu mu? |
| Pangasinan | Anto so ngaran mo? |
What the pattern shows
Kapampangan shares no root here at all — 'nanu' for what, 'lagyu' for name — which is a fair summary of how far Central Luzon sits from everything else on this list.
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.