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Kapampangan to English Translation

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Kapampangan phrases with English 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.

KapampanganEnglish
Mayap a abakGood morning
Mayap a gatpanapunGood afternoon
Mayap a bengiGood evening
Mayap a aldoGood day
Komusta ka?How are you?
Mayap ku namanI'm fine
Mako na kuGoodbye
SalamatThank you
Dakal a salamatThank you very much
Ala yang anumanYou're welcome
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How Kapampangan and English differ

Kapampangan is an Austronesian language of the Central Luzon group, spoken mainly in Pampanga, Tarlac (south), Bataan (north). English is Indo-European. The two share no ancestry at all, and what they do share is three centuries of contact: English is co-official in the Philippines, so Kapampangan carries a thick layer of English borrowings on top of an older Spanish one.

There is no question of mutual intelligibility here — the languages are unrelated. What matters instead is that English is the pivot: this translator, like most, routes Kapampangan through English internally. That makes Kapampangan↔English the strongest direction available for this language, and it is why translating Kapampangan into another Philippine language is measurably worse than translating it into English.

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.

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?

Kapampangan to English is the best-supported kind of direction this tool offers, because English is what the engine pivots through. That does not make it reliable — it makes it the least unreliable option for this language.

We ran all 257 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written English. It matched or came close 56.8% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Kapampangan → English scored 56.8% and English → Kapampangan scored 48.7% — a gap of 8.1 points on the same phrase set, so this direction is the one to trust more.

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Common questions

Is Kapampangan the same as English?
Kapampangan is an Austronesian language of the Central Luzon group, spoken mainly in Pampanga, Tarlac (south), Bataan (north). English is Indo-European. The two share no ancestry at all, and what they do share is three centuries of contact: English is co-official in the Philippines, so Kapampangan carries a thick layer of English borrowings on top of an older Spanish one.
Can a Kapampangan speaker understand English?
There is no question of mutual intelligibility here — the languages are unrelated. What matters instead is that English is the pivot: this translator, like most, routes Kapampangan through English internally. That makes Kapampangan↔English the strongest direction available for this language, and it is why translating Kapampangan into another Philippine language is measurably worse than translating it into English.
How accurate is Kapampangan to English translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 257 translatable entries in our Kapampangan–English phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written English 56.8% of the time. It is weakest on everyday verbs (0%) and strongest on months (100%). The direction matters too: English → Kapampangan scored 48.7%, a gap of 8.1 points. Treat it as a helpful draft, not a finished translation.
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 English to Kapampangan as well?
Yes — use the English to Kapampangan page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Kapampangan → English scored 56.8% and English → Kapampangan scored 48.7%. That is a real gap, so this direction is 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 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.