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Kapampangan to Tagalog Translation

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Kapampangan phrases with Tagalog 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.

KapampanganTagalogEnglish
Mayap a abakMagandang umagaGood morning
Mayap a gatpanapunMagandang haponGood afternoon
Mayap a bengiMagandang gabiGood evening
Mayap a aldoMagandang arawGood day
Komusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Mayap ku namanMabuti namanI'm fine
Mako na kuPaalamGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Dakal a salamatMaraming salamatThank you very much
Ala yang anumanWalang anumanYou're welcome
All 372 phrases

How Kapampangan and Tagalog differ

Kapampangan and Tagalog sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Kapampangan in the Central Luzon group, Tagalog 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, and this surprises people, because Pampanga borders the Tagalog provinces. Kapampangan belongs to the Central Luzon branch, not Central Philippine, and it is the deepest split on this site: nanu for what, ninu for who, lagyu for name, wa for yes, ali for no. Almost nothing in a Kapampangan sentence is guessable from Tagalog. The proximity on a map is not proximity in the family tree.

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. Tagalog is the basis of Filipino, the national language, so its vocabulary reaches every province through school and media — which is why speakers of the other seven usually understand it and the reverse is rarely true.

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.

    Tagalog: A grandchild.

  • daya

    Kapampangan: Blood.

    Tagalog: Deceit, cheating.

  • ari

    Kapampangan: A king.

    Tagalog: Property; also a coarse term for genitalia.

  • asan

    Kapampangan: A fish.

    Tagalog: Where — the colloquial contraction of nasaan.

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 Tagalog 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 256 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Tagalog. It matched or came close 60.9% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Kapampangan → Tagalog scored 60.9% and Tagalog → Kapampangan scored 51.1% — a gap of 9.8 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 Tagalog?
Kapampangan and Tagalog sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Kapampangan in the Central Luzon group, Tagalog 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 Tagalog?
No, and this surprises people, because Pampanga borders the Tagalog provinces. Kapampangan belongs to the Central Luzon branch, not Central Philippine, and it is the deepest split on this site: nanu for what, ninu for who, lagyu for name, wa for yes, ali for no. Almost nothing in a Kapampangan sentence is guessable from Tagalog. The proximity on a map is not proximity in the family tree.
How accurate is Kapampangan to Tagalog translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 256 translatable entries in our Kapampangan–Tagalog phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Tagalog 60.9% of the time. It is weakest on directions (23%) and strongest on months (92%). The direction matters too: Tagalog → Kapampangan scored 51.1%, a gap of 9.8 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: 66 of the entries in our Kapampangan–Tagalog 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.
Which Kapampangan words mean something different in Tagalog?
apo — A grandparent — the opposite generation to the Tagalog sense in Kapampangan, a grandchild in Tagalog; daya — Blood in Kapampangan, deceit, cheating in Tagalog; ari — A king in Kapampangan, property; also a coarse term for genitalia in Tagalog. We document 6 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 Tagalog to Kapampangan as well?
Yes — use the Tagalog to Kapampangan page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Kapampangan → Tagalog scored 60.9% and Tagalog → Kapampangan scored 51.1%. 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.