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Waray to Pangasinan Translation

Translate Waray to Pangasinan instantly, then check the result against a 354-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Waray phrases with Pangasinan translations

354 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.

WarayPangasinanEnglish
Maupay nga agaMaabig ya kabuasanGood morning
Maupay nga kulopMaabig ya ngaremGood afternoon
Maupay nga gab-iMaabig ya labiGood evening
Maupay nga adlawMaabig ya agewGood day
Kumusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Maupay manMaabig akI'm fine
Pag-ihaOnla ak laGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Damo nga salamatDakel ya salamatThank you very much
Waray sapayanAnggapoy anumanYou're welcome
All 354 phrases

How Waray and Pangasinan differ

Waray and Pangasinan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Waray in the Central Philippine group, Pangasinan in the Northern Luzon 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 Waray and Pangasinan 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. 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.

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.

  • lima

    Waray: Five.

    Pangasinan: A hand. The numeral five is limara.

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 Pangasinan 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 Pangasinan. It matched or came close 58.6% of the time.

We measured the reverse direction too: Pangasinan → Waray scored 57.9% against 58.6% here. The two are close enough that neither direction is clearly better.

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Common questions

Is Waray the same as Pangasinan?
Waray and Pangasinan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Waray in the Central Philippine group, Pangasinan in the Northern Luzon 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 Waray speaker understand Pangasinan?
No. Speakers of Waray and Pangasinan 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 Pangasinan translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 261 translatable entries in our Waray–Pangasinan phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Pangasinan 58.6% of the time. It is weakest on everyday verbs (21%) and strongest on nature & weather (88%). 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: 64 of the entries in our Waray–Pangasinan 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.
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 Pangasinan to Waray as well?
Yes — use the Pangasinan to Waray page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Waray → Pangasinan scored 58.6% and Pangasinan → Waray scored 57.9%. 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. 354 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.