Some people put candlenut on the baby's fontanel so that cold won't get in. in Tetun
Ema balu taka bebé nia baboton ho kamii para malirin la bele tama.
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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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- Some senior people who work in the parliament swindle the people of their money.Ema boot servisu iha parlamentu, balu han matak povu nia osan.
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