Ilocano Word Lists

149 Ilocano words and phrases grouped by topic, each with its Tagalog equivalent and an English gloss. Every entry comes from our curated phrasebook rather than the translation engine.

• Ilocano Greetings

  12 entries · Openers you will hear every day in Ilocos.

• Ilocano Polite Words and Phrases

  9 entries · Please, thank you, sorry, yes and no.

• Ilocano Phrases for When You Do Not Understand

  6 entries · Getting by when you do not follow.

• Ilocano Numbers

  17 entries · Native Ilocano numerals and their Tagalog equivalents.

• Ilocano Days, Months and Time Words

  22 entries · Telling the time, naming the day.

• Ilocano Food and Eating Words

  33 entries · The largest category, because meals are where the language lives.

• Ilocano Market and Money Words

  10 entries · Prices, haggling, paying.

• Ilocano Directions and Travel Words

  14 entries · Getting where you are going.

• Ilocano Emergency and Health Phrases

  10 entries · The phrases worth memorising before you need them.

• Ilocano Family and People Words

  9 entries · Relationships and forms of address.

• Ilocano Colours

  7 entries · Basic colour terms in both languages.

Topics with only a handful of entries are not given their own page — they still appear in the full phrasebook.