MTL Toolbox

MTL Toolbox (https://learntaiwanese.org/MTLtoolbox/about.html) is software and data to help work with written Taiwanese using the MTL writing system and other romanizations for Taiwanese.

Features

six Taiwanese dictionaries spanning from Japanese era to present day
full-text search engine accepts written Taiwanese as well as English, and Harnji
audio from latest government-compiled dictionary
word unjoiner to aid learning and searching at syllable level
Seven Tones soundboard: table of all MLT finals with examples

try typing in or clicking these words (monosyllables from Practical Taiwanese Conversation):
- goar
- lie
- ee

try the following words (they consist of joined syllables). results from non-MLT dictionaries should be about the same as respective unjoined syllables above

Local copies of:

HTB: Hiexntai-buun Dictionary
DFT: Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (originally TL with MTL annotations)
MK: Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary (originally POJ with MTL annotations)
EDUTECH: Liim Keahioong (2001-2003) EDUTECH: Taiwanese-English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling. MLT, unified spellings (øe), no unjoined
Embree, Bernard L. M. (1973). A Dictionary of Southern Min: based on current usage in Taiwan and checked against the earlier works of Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, and Ernest Tipson. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute.
Lim08: Tai-Nichi Daijiten translated into Taiwanese. (1931 & 1932, original uses Taiwanese kana, not POJ)

We also support searching other websites with conversion to POJ/TL:

SQLite: FTS4 for full-text search
Token prefix queries: use the asterisk ('*') at the end. Similar to but not same as the wildcard character in operating systems (normal wildcard search not currently supported by FTS)
- Example: Taioa*
Specify a column-name followed by a colon (':')
- Example: thj:頭* (you should see all DFT entries starting with this Harnji)