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Ilocano to Bikol Translation

Translate Ilocano to Bikol instantly, then check the result against a 396-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Ilocano phrases with Bikol translations

396 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.

IlocanoBikolEnglish
Naimbag a bigatMarhay na agaGood morning
Naimbag a malemMarhay na haponGood afternoon
Naimbag a rabiiMarhay na banggiGood evening
Naimbag nga aldawMarhay na aldawGood day
Kumustaka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Nasayaat metMarhay manI'm fine
AgpakadaakonPaaramGoodbye
AgyamanakSalamatThank you
Agyamanak unayDakulang salamatThank you very much
Awan ania manDaing ano manYou're welcome
All 396 phrases

How Ilocano and Bikol differ

Ilocano and Bikol sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Ilocano in the Northern Luzon group, Bikol in the Central Philippine group. They are related in the way English and Russian are related — the same family, far enough apart that the relationship is a fact about history rather than something a speaker can use.

No. Speakers of Ilocano and Bikol cannot follow each other without having learned the other language. They share sentence structure and Spanish loanwords, which makes written text look more approachable than it is, and almost none of the high-frequency vocabulary.

Ilocano marks its nouns with ti and ti, uses the linkers a and nga, and has a dual pronoun meaning 'you and I' that Tagalog lacks entirely. Bikol is a dialect cluster rather than one uniform language. Standard Central Bikol (Naga) is what machine translation targets; Rinconada, Albay and Masbate forms are frequently passed through untouched.

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 Ilocano nor Bikol 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 396 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Bikol. It matched or came close 46.0% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Ilocano → Bikol scored 46.0% and Bikol → Ilocano scored 56.1% — a gap of 10.1 points on the same phrase set, so the other direction is the one to trust more.

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Common questions

Is Ilocano the same as Bikol?
Ilocano and Bikol sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Ilocano in the Northern Luzon group, Bikol in the Central Philippine group. They are related in the way English and Russian are related — the same family, far enough apart that the relationship is a fact about history rather than something a speaker can use.
Can a Ilocano speaker understand Bikol?
No. Speakers of Ilocano and Bikol cannot follow each other without having learned the other language. They share sentence structure and Spanish loanwords, which makes written text look more approachable than it is, and almost none of the high-frequency vocabulary.
How accurate is Ilocano to Bikol translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 396 translatable entries in our Ilocano–Bikol phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Bikol 46.0% of the time. It is weakest on getting around (14%) and strongest on months (92%). The direction matters too: Bikol → Ilocano scored 56.1%, a gap of 10.1 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: 72 of the entries in our Ilocano–Bikol phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Lima (five), Pito (seven), Walo (eight), Aldaw (day). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
How many people speak Ilocano?
The 2020 Philippine census recorded Ilocano as the language generally spoken at home in about 1.86 million households, and 8.0% of the household population identified as ethnically Ilocano. Third-largest language in the Philippines by ethnic population, and the lingua franca of northern Luzon well beyond the Ilocos provinces themselves. Figures elsewhere claiming far larger totals for these languages are generally not supported by census data.
Can I translate Bikol to Ilocano as well?
Yes — use the Bikol to Ilocano page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Ilocano → Bikol scored 46.0% and Bikol → Ilocano scored 56.1%. That is a real gap, so the reverse direction is actually 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 Ilocano speaker has reviewed this data yet. 396 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.