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Ilocano to Pangasinan Translation

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Ilocano phrases with Pangasinan translations

377 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.

IlocanoPangasinanEnglish
Naimbag a bigatMaabig ya kabuasanGood morning
Naimbag a malemMaabig ya ngaremGood afternoon
Naimbag a rabiiMaabig ya labiGood evening
Naimbag nga aldawMaabig ya agewGood day
Kumustaka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Nasayaat metMaabig akI'm fine
AgpakadaakonOnla ak laGoodbye
AgyamanakSalamatThank you
Agyamanak unayDakel ya salamatThank you very much
Awan ania manAnggapoy anumanYou're welcome
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How Ilocano and Pangasinan differ

Ilocano and Pangasinan both belong to the Northern Luzon group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Ilocano to Ilocano, Pangasinan to Pangasinic. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.

No, despite sharing a province border and a branch of the family. Both are Northern Luzon languages, but Ilocano and Pangasinan sit in different subgroups within it and the everyday vocabulary shows it: agew against aldaw for day, abung against balay for house, on against wen for yes. Pangasinan's numerals carry a counting suffix Ilocano does not use at all. Many people in northern Pangasinan speak both, which is bilingualism rather than intelligibility.

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. Pangasinan attaches a counting suffix to its numerals — sakey, duara, talora — and keeps say as its main noun marker, neither of which has a counterpart elsewhere on this list.

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.

  • lima

    Ilocano: Five.

    Pangasinan: A hand. The numeral five is limara.

  • tawen

    Ilocano: A year.

    Pangasinan: The sky.

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 Pangasinan 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 377 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Pangasinan. It matched or came close 50.1% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Ilocano → Pangasinan scored 50.1% and Pangasinan → Ilocano scored 56.7% — a gap of 6.6 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 Pangasinan?
Ilocano and Pangasinan both belong to the Northern Luzon group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Ilocano to Ilocano, Pangasinan to Pangasinic. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.
Can a Ilocano speaker understand Pangasinan?
No, despite sharing a province border and a branch of the family. Both are Northern Luzon languages, but Ilocano and Pangasinan sit in different subgroups within it and the everyday vocabulary shows it: agew against aldaw for day, abung against balay for house, on against wen for yes. Pangasinan's numerals carry a counting suffix Ilocano does not use at all. Many people in northern Pangasinan speak both, which is bilingualism rather than intelligibility.
How accurate is Ilocano to Pangasinan translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 377 translatable entries in our Ilocano–Pangasinan phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Pangasinan 50.1% of the time. It is weakest on everyday verbs (22%) and strongest on greetings (88%). The direction matters too: Pangasinan → Ilocano scored 56.7%, a gap of 6.6 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: 88 of the entries in our Ilocano–Pangasinan phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Ina (mother), Ama (father), Anak (child), Asawa (spouse). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
Which Ilocano words mean something different in Pangasinan?
lima — Five in Ilocano, a hand. The numeral five is limara in Pangasinan; tawen — A year in Ilocano, the sky in Pangasinan. We document 2 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 Pangasinan to Ilocano as well?
Yes — use the Pangasinan to Ilocano page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Ilocano → Pangasinan scored 50.1% and Pangasinan → Ilocano scored 56.7%. 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. 377 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.