Guess the language
A phrase, and eight languages it could be. Most Filipinos can place two or three; almost nobody gets all eight first time.
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Which language is this?
agom
It means “wife”.
Struggling to tell them apart? The language identifier does it the other way round — it shows which words decide the answer.
Why this is harder than it looks
These eight languages sit on three separate branches of Austronesian, and the ones people most often confuse are not the ones that are actually closest. Cebuano, Hiligaynon and Waray are all Bisayan and share a great deal — which is exactly why telling them apart takes practice rather than intuition.
Only phrases belonging to one language are asked about. Asul is blue in every language here and salamat is thank you in most of them; asking which language those are would be a question with several right answers. That leaves 1,634 fair questions out of the 370 concepts in the set.
Where the phrases come from
The same compiled phrasebook the rest of this site runs on, held in parallel across all eight languages. If you want the answer worked out for you rather than guessed, the language identifier names the words that decide it.