Pig Latin translator

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Pig Latin is a playful English word game. This page applies fixed rules: a/e/i/o/u are vowels; y is treated as a consonant; initial qu moves together; punctuation and hyphens remain separators; title case and all-caps are restored after conversion. It is not a natural-language AI translator.

For a vowel-starting word, keep the word in place and add way: apple becomes appleway and open becomes openway. For a consonant-starting word, move the opening consonant sound to the end and add ay: banana becomes ananabay, smile becomes ilesmay, and string becomes ingstray. This implementation moves written consonant clusters, so it follows spelling rather than trying to pronounce each word.

The qu pair moves together at the start, making quick become ickquay. Here, y counts as a consonant, so yellow becomes ellowyay. Capitalization is restored after the move, while punctuation stays around its word and hyphenated parts are handled separately. Those explicit rules make results repeatable, although regional playground versions may produce a different answer.