MTL Toolbox

MTL Toolbox is a set of scripts written in PHP that aid in understanding of Modern Taiwanese Language (MTL) and researching Taiwanese vocabulary (gwsuu).

Dictionaries (Jixtiern)

• Modern Taiwanese-English Dictionary [1] - a search engine for the HTB Dictionary. It accepts MTL, English and Harnji queries. Links to MTL Explainer and text-to-speech (TTS).
• Gateway to the Tw-Ch (Taihoa) Dictionary - converts an MTL word to a POJ word, looks it up in the POJ Taibuun/Hoabuun Svoarterng Sutiern, and converts results from POJ to MTL. Also accepts Harnji for Taiwanese and Mandarin as search terms. Big5 encoding.

MTL learning tools

• MTL Word Explainer [2] - explains the syllables within MTL word and where tone sandhi occurs.
• MTL Text to Speech (TTS) 🔊 - simply paste an MTL sentence after the "q=" and listen right away!
  • For example, Lie hør! 🔊 (hosted by National Museum of Taiwan Literature)
• POJ vs MTL Demonstrator
  • Converts a POJ Unicode word into POJ ASCII, MTLN, MTLP, and MTL formats.
  • MTLN can let you write an MTL word when you know the syllables in numbered tone format (citation tone).
  • Can decompose an MTL word into syllables of original tone (MTLP).

MTL/POJ Conversion

• POJ to MTL Converter - converts POJ sentences (in UTF-8 encoding) to MTL.
• MTL to POJ Converter - converts MTL sentences to POJ in ASCII format.

See Also

• Taiwanese-English Dictionary

Acknowledgements

The MTL Toolbox uses data from the Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary, published by the Maryknoll Language Service Center in 2001. They have generously released their dictionary to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.