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Waray to Bikol Translation

Translate Waray to Bikol instantly, then check the result against a 373-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Waray phrases with Bikol translations

373 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.

WarayBikolEnglish
Maupay nga agaMarhay na agaGood morning
Maupay nga kulopMarhay na haponGood afternoon
Maupay nga gab-iMarhay na banggiGood evening
Maupay nga adlawMarhay na aldawGood day
Kumusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Maupay manMarhay manI'm fine
Pag-ihaPaaramGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Damo nga salamatDakulang salamatThank you very much
Waray sapayanDaing ano manYou're welcome
All 373 phrases

How Waray and Bikol differ

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

No. Speakers of Waray and Bikol 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.

Waray runs a systematic s→h shift against its Bisayan neighbours — sin-o becomes hin-o, sarili becomes kalugaringon — which is the quickest way to tell written Waray from Hiligaynon. 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.

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 Waray 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 280 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Bikol. It matched or came close 60.0% of the time.

We measured the reverse direction too: Bikol → Waray scored 59.6% against 60.0% here. The two are close enough that neither direction is clearly better.

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Common questions

Is Waray the same as Bikol?
Waray and Bikol both belong to the Central Philippine group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Waray to Bisayan, Bikol to Bikol. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.
Can a Waray speaker understand Bikol?
No. Speakers of Waray and Bikol 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 Waray to Bikol translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 280 translatable entries in our Waray–Bikol phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Bikol 60.0% of the time. It is weakest on somewhere to stay (17%) and strongest on months (92%). 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: 139 of the entries in our Waray–Bikol phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Kumusta ka? (how are you?), Salamat (thank you), Ano ini? (what is this?), Tulo (three). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
How many people speak Waray?
Waray is spoken mainly in Samar, Eastern Samar, Northern Samar, Leyte (east). 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 Bikol to Waray as well?
Yes — use the Bikol to Waray page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Waray → Bikol scored 60.0% and Bikol → Waray scored 59.6%. 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 Waray speaker has reviewed this data yet. 373 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.