Ilocano to Bikol Translation
Translate Ilocano to Bikol free, up to 5,000 characters. Both are Philippine languages, and machine translation between them is weaker than between either and English — the engine routes through English internally.
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We have not written dedicated guidance for this pair yet, so this page is the tool alone. Our checked phrase data covers Philippine languages — start with the Ilocano to Tagalog translator.
About these two languages
Census figures below are from the 2020 Philippine Statistics Authority count of the language generally spoken at home.
Ilocano
Known to its speakers as Ilokano
- Family
- Austronesian › Malayo-Polynesian › Northern Luzon
- Households (2020)
- 1,860,000
- Spoken in
- Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Abra, Pangasinan (north)
Third-largest language in the Philippines by ethnic population, and the lingua franca of northern Luzon well beyond the Ilocos provinces themselves.
Bikol
- Family
- Austronesian › Malayo-Polynesian › Central Philippine
- Spoken in
- Camarines Sur, Albay, Sorsogon, Camarines Norte, Catanduanes
Bikol is a dialect cluster. Machine translation targets Central Bikol (Naga) and handles Rinconada, Albay and Masbate varieties poorly.
When not to rely on this
- · Legal, medical or financial documents.
- · Anything going into print or public signage.
- · Names, addresses and place names — these are passed through or mangled unpredictably.
- · Regional Ilocano vocabulary outside the Ilocos Norte/Sur standard.
- · Anything where formality or respect matters, given the register drift above.
We measured this engine on 153 checked Ilocano phrases and it matched the human translation 57% of the time. See the full audit.
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