Older brother Xanana (the respected president and former resistance leader) yesterday went to visit poor families in Baucau. in Tetun
Maun boot Xanana horiseik bá vizita família kiak sira iha Baucau.
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This Tetun (Tetum) translation comes from a curated 2,500-phrase parallel corpus drawn from the official tetun.org dictionary by Catharina Williams-van Klinken. Tetun is one of the two official languages of Timor-Leste alongside Portuguese.
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