Pig Latin Translator

Pig Latin is a word game, not a real language. You take the consonant sound at the start of a word, move it to the end, and add ay. Words that start with a vowel just get way on the end. Kids use it as a secret code, and it sounds foreign enough that people who don't know the trick can't follow along.

It has nothing to do with Latin. The name was in print by the 1860s, and the joke has always been that it sounds like a made-up foreign tongue.

1. Find the first vowel in the word (a, e, i, o or u). 2. Move every letter before it to the end: pig → ig + p. 3. Add ay: igpay. 4. If the word starts with a vowel, keep it whole and add way: apple → appleway. 5. Keep qu together: quiet → ietquay, not uietqay. 6. Count y as a vowel when it isn't the first letter: my → ymay, rhythm → ythmrhay. At the start of a word, y is a consonant: yellow → ellowyay.

I love you → Iway ovelay ouyay Hi → Ihay Hello → Ellohay I'm sorry → Iway'm orrysay Thank you → Ankthay ouyay Pig Latin → Igpay Atinlay The quick brown fox → Ethay ickquay ownbray oxfay

Not everyone ends vowel words with way. Some people say yay (appleyay), hay (applehay) or just ay (appleay). These are house rules, not mistakes. This translator uses way because it is easy to spot when decoding.

Decoding has one weak spot. A word like orldway could be world with the w moved to the end, or a vowel word orld with way added. The translator assumes the vowel rule, so check words that should start with w.