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Tagalog to Hiligaynon Translation

Translate Tagalog to Hiligaynon instantly, then check the result against a 402-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Tagalog phrases with Hiligaynon translations

402 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.

TagalogHiligaynonEnglish
Magandang umagaMaayong agaGood morning
Magandang haponMaayong haponGood afternoon
Magandang gabiMaayong gab-iGood evening
Magandang arawMaayong adlawGood day
Kumusta ka?Kamusta ka?How are you?
Mabuti namanMaayo manI'm fine
PaalamHalongGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Maraming salamatMadamo gid nga salamatThank you very much
Walang anumanWala sang anumanYou're welcome
All 402 phrases

How Tagalog and Hiligaynon differ

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

No. Hiligaynon is a Bisayan language and Tagalog is not, and the everyday vocabulary is different from the first word — Kamusta aside, a Tagalog speaker gets little from spoken Ilonggo. Comprehension runs the other way for the usual reason: Tagalog is the language of school and national media.

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. Hiligaynon — Ilonggo to its speakers — is the Western Bisayan language of Panay and Negros Occidental, and is close enough to Cebuano that the two are routinely mistaken for one language.

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.

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

  • pila

    Tagalog: A queue, a line of people waiting.

    Hiligaynon: How many.

  • bukid

    Tagalog: A field, farmland, the countryside.

    Hiligaynon: A mountain.

  • kalayo

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

    Hiligaynon: 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 Hiligaynon 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 402 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Hiligaynon. It matched or came close 45.0% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Tagalog → Hiligaynon scored 45.0% and Hiligaynon → Tagalog scored 66.2% — a gap of 21.2 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 Hiligaynon?
Tagalog and Hiligaynon both belong to the Central Philippine group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Tagalog to Tagalog, Hiligaynon to Bisayan. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.
Can a Tagalog speaker understand Hiligaynon?
No. Hiligaynon is a Bisayan language and Tagalog is not, and the everyday vocabulary is different from the first word — Kamusta aside, a Tagalog speaker gets little from spoken Ilonggo. Comprehension runs the other way for the usual reason: Tagalog is the language of school and national media.
How accurate is Tagalog to Hiligaynon translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 402 translatable entries in our Tagalog–Hiligaynon phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Hiligaynon 45.0% of the time. It is weakest on greetings (0%) and strongest on months (75%). The direction matters too: Hiligaynon → Tagalog scored 66.2%, a gap of 21.2 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: 134 of the entries in our Tagalog–Hiligaynon phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Salamat (thank you), Isa (one), Tatlo (three), Apat (four). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
Which Tagalog words mean something different in Hiligaynon?
wala — Nothing, none, absent in Tagalog, left — the direction. It also carries the 'none' sense, so only context separates them in Hiligaynon; pila — A queue, a line of people waiting in Tagalog, how many in Hiligaynon; bukid — A field, farmland, the countryside in Tagalog, a mountain in Hiligaynon. We document 11 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 Hiligaynon to Tagalog as well?
Yes — use the Hiligaynon to Tagalog page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Tagalog → Hiligaynon scored 45.0% and Hiligaynon → Tagalog scored 66.2%. 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. 402 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.