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Ilocano to Kapampangan Translation

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Ilocano phrases with Kapampangan translations

372 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.

IlocanoKapampanganEnglish
Naimbag a bigatMayap a abakGood morning
Naimbag a malemMayap a gatpanapunGood afternoon
Naimbag a rabiiMayap a bengiGood evening
Naimbag nga aldawMayap a aldoGood day
Kumustaka?Komusta ka?How are you?
Nasayaat metMayap ku namanI'm fine
AgpakadaakonMako na kuGoodbye
AgyamanakSalamatThank you
Agyamanak unayDakal a salamatThank you very much
Awan ania manAla yang anumanYou're welcome
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How Ilocano and Kapampangan differ

Ilocano and Kapampangan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Ilocano in the Northern Luzon group, Kapampangan in the Central Luzon 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. Both are Luzon languages but from different branches — Ilocano is Northern Luzon, Kapampangan is Central Luzon — and they share little beyond the verb mangan, 'to eat'. The trap worth knowing: Ilocano ima is a hand, Kapampangan ima is a mother.

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. Kapampangan is the outlier of the group: its question words (nanu, ninu, nokarin) and its word for name (lagyu) share no root with any of its neighbours, and its pronouns cliticise in ways Tagalog speakers find unparseable.

Words that exist in both languages and mean different things

These are where confident readers get caught, and where the translator above is least reliable — a word it does not recognise is passed through unchanged, which can land in the other language as a real word with an unrelated meaning.

  • ima

    Ilocano: A hand.

    Kapampangan: A mother.

  • apo

    Ilocano: A respectful title for an elder or person of authority — roughly 'sir' or 'ma'am'.

    Kapampangan: A grandparent — the opposite generation to the Tagalog sense.

  • baket

    Ilocano: An old woman; a wife.

    Kapampangan: Why.

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 Kapampangan 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 372 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Kapampangan. It matched or came close 43.5% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Ilocano → Kapampangan scored 43.5% and Kapampangan → Ilocano scored 49.8% — a gap of 6.3 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 Kapampangan?
Ilocano and Kapampangan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Ilocano in the Northern Luzon group, Kapampangan in the Central Luzon 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 Kapampangan?
No. Both are Luzon languages but from different branches — Ilocano is Northern Luzon, Kapampangan is Central Luzon — and they share little beyond the verb mangan, 'to eat'. The trap worth knowing: Ilocano ima is a hand, Kapampangan ima is a mother.
How accurate is Ilocano to Kapampangan translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 372 translatable entries in our Ilocano–Kapampangan phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Kapampangan 43.5% of the time. It is weakest on everyday verbs (10%) and strongest on things to buy (67%). The direction matters too: Kapampangan → Ilocano scored 49.8%, a gap of 6.3 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: 47 of the entries in our Ilocano–Kapampangan phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Lima (five), Tatang (dad), Anak (child), Lalaki (man). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
Which Ilocano words mean something different in Kapampangan?
ima — A hand in Ilocano, a mother in Kapampangan; apo — A respectful title for an elder or person of authority — roughly 'sir' or 'ma'am' in Ilocano, a grandparent — the opposite generation to the Tagalog sense in Kapampangan; baket — An old woman; a wife in Ilocano, why in Kapampangan. We document 3 of these for this pair. They are where the translator is least reliable, because a word it does not recognise is passed through unchanged and can land in the other language as a real word with an unrelated meaning.
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 Kapampangan to Ilocano as well?
Yes — use the Kapampangan to Ilocano page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Ilocano → Kapampangan scored 43.5% and Kapampangan → Ilocano scored 49.8%. 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. 372 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.