You must weigh up your words. Don’t just speak as you want to speak. in Tetun
Tenke ko'alia sukat ibun, la bele ko'alia tuir ó nia hakarak.
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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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