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Tetun Translator
The Tetun translation engine behind everything we ship
Tetun Translator at translate.tetumdili.com is OniT's own Tetun machine-translation engine, exposed as a free public tool. Unlike a generic LLM, every translation is grounded in a 14,000-headword English–Tetun dictionary (tetun.org), DIT justice / health / tourism glossaries, a 71,000-sentence parallel corpus, and the INL Matadalan Ortográfiku — the official Timor-Leste government orthography (Decree 1/2004). Output is cross-checked against 41 lint rules for spelling and grammar, and offered in both DIT (academic) and INL (government) orthographies. Register (formal / neutral / casual) and domain (legal / health / tourism / government) controls tune the output, and every Tetun result has native Timorese audio. It's free, account-free, and installable as a PWA — and it's the same engine that translates 100+ daily news sources inside Timor Media Monitor.
What it does
Capabilities
Grounded, not guessed
Every translation backed by a 14,000-word dictionary, DIT glossaries, and a 71,000-sentence parallel corpus — not a raw LLM.
Dual orthography
Switch between DIT (academic) and INL (Decree 1/2004 government standard), or let Auto pick per text.
Register + domain control
Tune formal / neutral / casual and bias toward legal, health, tourism, or government vocabulary.
Native Timorese audio
Hear every Tetun result spoken — and install the whole thing as an offline PWA.
Who it's for
Audience
- Translators
- Government
- NGOs
- Visitors & learners
- Newsrooms
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