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Tagalog to Bikol Translation

Translate Tagalog to Bikol instantly, then check the result against a 396-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Tagalog phrases with Bikol translations

396 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.

TagalogBikolEnglish
Magandang umagaMarhay na agaGood morning
Magandang haponMarhay na haponGood afternoon
Magandang gabiMarhay na banggiGood evening
Magandang arawMarhay na aldawGood day
Kumusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Mabuti namanMarhay manI'm fine
PaalamPaaramGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Maraming salamatDakulang salamatThank you very much
Walang anumanDaing ano manYou're welcome
All 396 phrases

How Tagalog and Bikol differ

Tagalog and Bikol both belong to the Central Philippine group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Tagalog to Tagalog, Bikol to Bikol. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.

No. Both sit in the Central Philippine group, so they share structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary, but Bikol's core words are its own — marhay for good, dai for no, harong for house, payo for head. A Tagalog speaker picks out numbers and loanwords and little else. Bikolanos generally understand Tagalog, because it is the language of school and television, not because the two are alike.

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. Bikol is a dialect cluster rather than one uniform language. Standard Central Bikol (Naga) is what machine translation targets; Rinconada, Albay and Masbate forms are frequently passed through untouched.

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.

  • wala

    Tagalog: Nothing, none, absent.

    Bikol: Left — the direction. It also carries the 'none' sense, so only context separates them.

  • sira

    Tagalog: Broken, spoiled, ruined.

    Bikol: Fish.

  • bukid

    Tagalog: A field, farmland, the countryside.

    Bikol: A mountain.

  • kalayo

    Tagalog: Distance — parsed as ka- plus layo, 'far'.

    Bikol: Fire.

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 Tagalog nor Bikol 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 396 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Bikol. It matched or came close 57.8% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Tagalog → Bikol scored 57.8% and Bikol → Tagalog scored 68.6% — a gap of 10.8 points on the same phrase set, so the other direction is the one to trust more.

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Common questions

Is Tagalog the same as Bikol?
Tagalog and Bikol both belong to the Central Philippine group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Tagalog to Tagalog, Bikol to Bikol. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.
Can a Tagalog speaker understand Bikol?
No. Both sit in the Central Philippine group, so they share structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary, but Bikol's core words are its own — marhay for good, dai for no, harong for house, payo for head. A Tagalog speaker picks out numbers and loanwords and little else. Bikolanos generally understand Tagalog, because it is the language of school and television, not because the two are alike.
How accurate is Tagalog to Bikol translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 396 translatable entries in our Tagalog–Bikol phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Bikol 57.8% of the time. It is weakest on courtesy (20%) and strongest on months (92%). The direction matters too: Bikol → Tagalog scored 68.6%, a gap of 10.8 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: 129 of the entries in our Tagalog–Bikol phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Kumusta ka? (how are you?), Salamat (thank you), Apat (four), Lima (five). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
Which Tagalog words mean something different in Bikol?
wala — Nothing, none, absent in Tagalog, left — the direction. It also carries the 'none' sense, so only context separates them in Bikol; sira — Broken, spoiled, ruined in Tagalog, fish in Bikol; bukid — A field, farmland, the countryside in Tagalog, a mountain in Bikol. We document 9 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 Tagalog?
The 2020 Philippine census recorded Tagalog as the language generally spoken at home in about 10.52 million households, and 26.0% of the household population identified as ethnically Tagalog. Spoken at home in 39.9% of Philippine households. Filipino, the national language, is standardised Tagalog — which is why both share the code 'tl'. Figures elsewhere claiming far larger totals for these languages are generally not supported by census data.
Can I translate Bikol to Tagalog as well?
Yes — use the Bikol to Tagalog page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Tagalog → Bikol scored 57.8% and Bikol → Tagalog scored 68.6%. That is a real gap, so the reverse direction is actually 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 Tagalog speaker has reviewed this data yet. 396 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.