Tetum Translation Services

Yes. Translation in Tetum (Tetun Dili) - a language of East Timor, where it is an official language, and West Timor in Indonesia - is routine here, not something arranged specially when it comes up. The text is delivered in Latin script with ñ and the accented á, é and ó in Portuguese loanwords, produced by a native speaker and checked by a second one before it reaches you.

Both directions. Tetum (Tetun Dili) into English and English into Tetum (Tetun Dili) go to different people, because a translator works into their first language and not out of it. Certified translation is available at $25 per page. Certified pages are prepared in the format the receiving office asks for, with the signed statement attached.

Three steps: send the material, approve the quote, receive the finished work by email. Nothing starts before you approve the price, and revisions are free for 30 days after delivery. Say which Tetum (Tetun Dili) variety the speakers use when you send the files, because that is what decides who the job goes to. Say what the finished text is for - a filing, a launch, a reader - because the brief changes the wording more than the language does.

By card, PayPal, Square, wire transfer or check, or on a monthly invoice where your finance team prefers one. Nothing is taken up front on Tetum (Tetun Dili) work: payment falls due once you have approved the written quote. Quotes are issued in writing and the invoice never exceeds the figure you approved.

Tetum (Tetun Dili) has a smaller pool of qualified translators than the major languages, so availability is confirmed before you pay and not promised then rescheduled. Most requests are placed within hours; where the wait would be longer, you are told at quoting stage. A single page is a normal order here, and most certified filings start with exactly that.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page, with volume pricing once a project passes an agreed size. The quote for Tetum (Tetun Dili) translation is worked out from the word count, the subject matter and whether the document has to be certified. Tetum (Tetun Dili) sits outside the commonly requested languages, so availability is confirmed before the quote is issued and not after you have paid. Send the material and the figure comes back within minutes.

You are given a date, not a range: rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours where it is urgent, and a firm delivery time in the quote where it is not. Tetum (Tetun Dili) material with heavy code-switching takes longer to work through than clean single-speaker source, and the date you are given reflects that.

Work is done by human translators and compared with the original before it is sent, which is how the 99+% accuracy standard is met. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first. The reviewer on each Tetum (Tetun Dili) file checks names and terms against the source instead of reading the text through, because this material is full of names nobody can guess at. One person working alone would not catch a term rendered two different ways in the same document.

Files are handled under NDA, moved through encrypted transfer and seen only by the assigned team. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. Tetum (Tetun Dili) files often carry names, addresses and case references, so access stays with the assigned translator and the reviewer. They can also be deleted on an agreed schedule after delivery, with written confirmation.

You choose: editable Word or Google Docs, a searchable PDF for filing, or Excel where the content belongs in a table. The Tetum (Tetun Dili) text itself is written in Latin script with ñ and the accented á, é and ó in Portuguese loanwords. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend. Send a template once and every later order follows it.