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Kapampangan to Bikol Translation

Translate Kapampangan to Bikol instantly, then check the result against a 368-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Kapampangan phrases with Bikol translations

368 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.

KapampanganBikolEnglish
Mayap a abakMarhay na agaGood morning
Mayap a gatpanapunMarhay na haponGood afternoon
Mayap a bengiMarhay na banggiGood evening
Mayap a aldoMarhay na aldawGood day
Komusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Mayap ku namanMarhay manI'm fine
Mako na kuPaaramGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Dakal a salamatDakulang salamatThank you very much
Ala yang anumanDaing ano manYou're welcome
All 368 phrases

How Kapampangan and Bikol differ

Kapampangan and Bikol sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Kapampangan in the Central 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 Kapampangan 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.

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. 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.

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.

  • banwa

    Kapampangan: A year.

    Bikol: A town, a homeland.

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 Kapampangan 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 253 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Bikol. It matched or came close 54.2% of the time.

We measured the reverse direction too: Bikol → Kapampangan scored 56.5% against 54.2% here. The two are close enough that neither direction is clearly better.

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Common questions

Is Kapampangan the same as Bikol?
Kapampangan and Bikol sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Kapampangan in the Central 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 Kapampangan speaker understand Bikol?
No. Speakers of Kapampangan 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 Kapampangan to Bikol translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 253 translatable entries in our Kapampangan–Bikol phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Bikol 54.2% of the time. It is weakest on somewhere to stay (20%) and strongest on months (92%). 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: 46 of the entries in our Kapampangan–Bikol phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Salamat (thank you), Apat (four), Lima (five), Siyam (nine). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
How many people speak Kapampangan?
Kapampangan is spoken mainly in Pampanga, Tarlac (south), Bataan (north). The 2020 census reports ethnicity rather than a separate speaker count for it, so we do not publish a speaker figure we cannot source. Central Luzon branch — not closely related to Tagalog despite the geographic overlap, which is why Kapampangan↔Tagalog machine output is weaker than the distance on a map suggests. Figures elsewhere claiming far larger totals for these languages are generally not supported by census data.
Can I translate Bikol to Kapampangan as well?
Yes — use the Bikol to Kapampangan page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Kapampangan → Bikol scored 54.2% and Bikol → Kapampangan scored 56.5%. The two are close enough that neither is clearly better.
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 Kapampangan speaker has reviewed this data yet. 368 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.