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Kapampangan to Cebuano Translation

Translate Kapampangan to Cebuano instantly, then check the result against a 372-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Kapampangan phrases with Cebuano 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.

KapampanganCebuanoEnglish
Mayap a abakMaayong buntagGood morning
Mayap a gatpanapunMaayong haponGood afternoon
Mayap a bengiMaayong gabiiGood evening
Mayap a aldoMaayong adlawGood day
Komusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Mayap ku namanMaayo raI'm fine
Mako na kuAyo-ayoGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Dakal a salamatDaghang salamatThank you very much
Ala yang anumanWalay sapayanYou're welcome
All 372 phrases

How Kapampangan and Cebuano differ

Kapampangan and Cebuano sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Kapampangan in the Central Luzon group, Cebuano 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 Cebuano 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. Cebuano is the largest Bisayan language and the lingua franca of most of Mindanao, so a great deal of what is loosely called 'Bisaya' online is Cebuano specifically.

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.

  • apo

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

    Cebuano: A grandchild.

  • daya

    Kapampangan: Blood.

    Cebuano: Deceit, cheating.

  • banwa

    Kapampangan: A year.

    Cebuano: 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 Cebuano 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 255 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Cebuano. It matched or came close 52.9% of the time.

We measured the reverse direction too: Cebuano → Kapampangan scored 50.2% against 52.9% here. The two are close enough that neither direction is clearly better.

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Common questions

Is Kapampangan the same as Cebuano?
Kapampangan and Cebuano sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Kapampangan in the Central Luzon group, Cebuano 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 Cebuano?
No. Speakers of Kapampangan and Cebuano 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 Cebuano translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 255 translatable entries in our Kapampangan–Cebuano phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Cebuano 52.9% of the time. It is weakest on everyday verbs (0%) and strongest on months (83%). 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: 45 of the entries in our Kapampangan–Cebuano phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Salamat (thank you), Lima (five), Siyam (nine), Anak (child). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
Which Kapampangan words mean something different in Cebuano?
apo — A grandparent — the opposite generation to the Tagalog sense in Kapampangan, a grandchild in Cebuano; daya — Blood in Kapampangan, deceit, cheating in Cebuano; banwa — A year in Kapampangan, a town, a homeland in Cebuano. 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 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 Cebuano to Kapampangan as well?
Yes — use the Cebuano to Kapampangan page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Kapampangan → Cebuano scored 52.9% and Cebuano → Kapampangan scored 50.2%. 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. 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.