English to Pig Latin Translator

Enter English Text to Translate:

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Pig Latin. This is accomplished via this HTML document and
accompanying JavaScript program. Note that hyphenated words
are treated as two words. Words may consist of alphabetic
characters only (A-Z and a-z). All punctuation, numerals,
symbols and whitespace are not modified.

Igpay Atinlay Anslationtray:

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display here when you press the Translate button.

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Check this box to see the Pig Latin output in 'Learning Mode'

with dashes between the modified word proper and its new suffix for

better understanding and ease of pronunciation (must re-Translate)

This English to Pig Latin translation program performs a (near-) perfect translation of any English text to Pig Latin. Words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs and more.

There are many dialects and forms of Pig Latin which vary from region to region, country to country, and language to language, as well as other similar, and dissimilar, Pig Latin-like 'languages'. The dialect shown here tends to hail from California/West Coast of the United States.

Basically, the Pig Latin system used here works as follows:

Words that start with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U) simply have "WAY" appended to the end of the word.
Words that start with a consonant have all consonant letters up to the first vowel moved to the end of the word (as opposed to just the first consonant letter), and "AY" is appended.
('Y' is counted as a vowel in this context)

The algorithm incorporates the following features and special case functionality:

Ensures proper capitalization
Correct upper case and lower case formatting
Correctly translates "qu" (e.g., ietquay instead of uietqay)
Differentiates between "Y" as vowel and "Y" as consonant
(e.g. yellow = elloyay and style = ylestay) — (except for a very few exceptions)
Correctly translates contractions
Hyphenated words are treated as two words
Words may consist of alphabetic characters only (A-Z and a-z)
All punctuation, numerals, symbols and whitespace are not modified

The routines are written in standard, client-side, browser-executed JavaScript, and uses HTML Form objects (Text Areas, Text fields, Buttons and Check Boxes). The algorithms were developed and programmed by Bill Donnelly circa 1997.

Links: More Pig Latin information than you ever wanted to know about.

The Internet (World Wide Web, et al.) is becoming and/or has effectively become an Encyclopaedia Galactica.

To visit the pages, Click the little framed Piggy (gently).....
(all pages opened in a new window)

First and foremost, Google me this!

Note: The Google Web Directory has been shut down, but there is a version at dmoz.org, so you will be directed to it now, or try the Yahoo directory below.

The (non-)Google Web Directory listing for
Science > Social Sciences > Linguistics > Languages > Constructed > Play > Pig Latin.

The Yahoo Directory for
Social Science > Linguistics and Human Languages > Words and Wordplay > Pig Latin.

Perform an extensive Google search for even more Encyclopaedia Galactica references to "Pig Latin". (or see links below)

Are you brave enough to search with Google using Pig Latin??
(doesn't work as well as it used to)

Or, perform a Google search of your choice:

More links and some of these web pages link back to this page:
    (listed in no particular order; not all rated 'G'; some PG-13 +/-)
Note that some pages have disappeared, and are linked to via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine version when possible, others have been removed.

The Wikipedia Pig Latin page
           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin
Applelinks Article: Igpay Atinlay (Pig Latin) Encoding May Defeat Napster Filters
           http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2001/03/20010313125557.shtml
Applelinks Article: More And Less Pig Latin On The Web
           http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2001/03/20010315125516.shtml
Riverdale Library Youth Services
           http://www2.sls.lib.il.us/RDS/youth/
Get a Web-Organized Life
           http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/webcal040599.htm
Word Play
           http://www.wolinskyweb.net/word.htm
All THE BEST CENTRAL-Your Humor Page. Laughter is your best medicine.
           http://www.allthebestcentral.com/humor.html
Brainlock.org Webertainment: the fun, the weird, and the just strange!!
           http://www.brainlock.org/fun02.htm

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This translator has been accessed millions of times. The counter was lost on the original page. The last known count was 1,596,824 hits sometime before 2000. At one time it was the most popular Pig Latin page on the Internet and it is still easily in the top ten.

Last updated: October 2014; before that: December 16, 2004; before that: January 5, 2002