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Pangasinan to Cebuano Translation

Translate Pangasinan to Cebuano instantly, then check the result against a 377-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Pangasinan phrases with Cebuano translations

377 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.

PangasinanCebuanoEnglish
Maabig ya kabuasanMaayong buntagGood morning
Maabig ya ngaremMaayong haponGood afternoon
Maabig ya labiMaayong gabiiGood evening
Maabig ya agewMaayong adlawGood day
Kumusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Maabig akMaayo raI'm fine
Onla ak laAyo-ayoGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Dakel ya salamatDaghang salamatThank you very much
Anggapoy anumanWalay sapayanYou're welcome
All 377 phrases

How Pangasinan and Cebuano differ

Pangasinan and Cebuano sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Pangasinan in the Northern 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 Pangasinan 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.

Pangasinan attaches a counting suffix to its numerals — sakey, duara, talora — and keeps say as its main noun marker, neither of which has a counterpart elsewhere on this list. 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.

  • sira

    Pangasinan: Fish.

    Cebuano: Broken, spoiled, ruined.

  • lima

    Pangasinan: A hand. The numeral five is limara.

    Cebuano: Five.

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 Pangasinan 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 261 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Cebuano. It matched or came close 56.7% of the time.

We measured the reverse direction too: Cebuano → Pangasinan scored 54.8% against 56.7% here. The two are close enough that neither direction is clearly better.

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Common questions

Is Pangasinan the same as Cebuano?
Pangasinan and Cebuano sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Pangasinan in the Northern 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 Pangasinan speaker understand Cebuano?
No. Speakers of Pangasinan 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 Pangasinan to Cebuano translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 261 translatable entries in our Pangasinan–Cebuano phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Cebuano 56.7% of the time. It is weakest on everyday verbs (0%) and strongest on the body (100%). 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: 61 of the entries in our Pangasinan–Cebuano phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Kumusta ka? (how are you?), Salamat (thank you), Nanay (mum), Tatay (dad). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
Which Pangasinan words mean something different in Cebuano?
sira — Fish in Pangasinan, broken, spoiled, ruined in Cebuano; lima — A hand. The numeral five is limara in Pangasinan, five in Cebuano. We document 2 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 Pangasinan?
Pangasinan is spoken mainly in Pangasinan, Benguet (west), La Union (south), Tarlac (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. Figures elsewhere claiming far larger totals for these languages are generally not supported by census data.
Can I translate Cebuano to Pangasinan as well?
Yes — use the Cebuano to Pangasinan page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Pangasinan → Cebuano scored 56.7% and Cebuano → Pangasinan scored 54.8%. 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 Pangasinan speaker has reviewed this data yet. 377 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.