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Kapampangan to Ilocano Translation

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Kapampangan phrases with Ilocano 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.

KapampanganIlocanoEnglish
Mayap a abakNaimbag a bigatGood morning
Mayap a gatpanapunNaimbag a malemGood afternoon
Mayap a bengiNaimbag a rabiiGood evening
Mayap a aldoNaimbag nga aldawGood day
Komusta ka?Kumustaka?How are you?
Mayap ku namanNasayaat metI'm fine
Mako na kuAgpakadaakonGoodbye
SalamatAgyamanakThank you
Dakal a salamatAgyamanak unayThank you very much
Ala yang anumanAwan ania manYou're welcome
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How Kapampangan and Ilocano differ

Kapampangan and Ilocano sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Kapampangan in the Central Luzon group, Ilocano in the Northern 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.

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. 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.

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

    Kapampangan: A mother.

    Ilocano: A hand.

  • apo

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

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

  • baket

    Kapampangan: Why.

    Ilocano: An old woman; a wife.

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 Ilocano 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 257 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Ilocano. It matched or came close 49.8% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Kapampangan → Ilocano scored 49.8% and Ilocano → Kapampangan scored 43.5% — a gap of 6.3 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 Ilocano?
Kapampangan and Ilocano sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Kapampangan in the Central Luzon group, Ilocano in the Northern 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 Kapampangan speaker understand Ilocano?
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 Kapampangan to Ilocano translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 257 translatable entries in our Kapampangan–Ilocano phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Ilocano 49.8% of the time. It is weakest on getting around (0%) and strongest on months (92%). The direction matters too: Ilocano → Kapampangan scored 43.5%, 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 Kapampangan–Ilocano 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 Kapampangan words mean something different in Ilocano?
ima — A mother in Kapampangan, a hand in Ilocano; apo — A grandparent — the opposite generation to the Tagalog sense in Kapampangan, a respectful title for an elder or person of authority — roughly 'sir' or 'ma'am' in Ilocano; baket — Why in Kapampangan, an old woman; a wife in Ilocano. 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 Ilocano to Kapampangan as well?
Yes — use the Ilocano to Kapampangan page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Kapampangan → Ilocano scored 49.8% and Ilocano → Kapampangan scored 43.5%. 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.