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Melanau Translator Online: English to Melanau Word Substitution

Replace English words and short phrases with Melanau equivalents from a fixed paired list, phrase-first and whole-word, with unmatched text preserved in place. You also get a per-token coverage report and a reverse Melanau-to-English direction from the same list. Try it online.

What is Melanau Translator Online: English to Melanau Word Substitution?

This is a conversational word and phrase substituter for English and Melanau. It applies a fixed paired list of English entries and Melanau equivalents, matching longer phrases before single words and matching whole words only, so "want to" becomes "bak" as a unit instead of being split. Anything outside the list stays exactly where it was, and you get a short coverage report telling you which tokens were replaced and which were left alone. The same list also runs in reverse for Melanau-to-English requests.

Key Features

Phrase-first, whole-word matching. Multi-word entries such as "want to", "go to" and "like to" are applied before single words, and words inside larger words are not touched.
Nothing silently deleted. Unmapped English words, punctuation, numbers and spacing are preserved in the output, so you can see exactly what the list covered.
Coverage report. After the converted text you get counts of matched phrases, matched words, and preserved tokens, plus a short list of the English words that had no Melanau entry.
Reverse direction. Ask for Melanau to English and the same paired list is inverted; where two English entries share one Melanau form, the agent tells you which options exist instead of guessing silently.
Copyable output blocks. Converted text arrives in a plain code block you can copy directly.

How to Use

Type or paste your English text and say what you want, for example "translate to Melanau: I want to go to the market and my father is happy".
Read the converted text block first, then the coverage report underneath it, which lists any words the fixed list could not map.
Ask for the reverse direction by naming it, for example "now Melanau to English: akow bak tabui". You can also ask for a sentence-by-sentence gloss if you want to see the gaps line by line.

Example Use Cases

Everyday sentence substitution for Melanau language learners. Paste a short English sentence and see which everyday words such as family terms, times of day and common verbs already have Melanau equivalents in the list.
Checking a phrase before sharing it. Run a short message through the tool and read the coverage report so you know which words are still English before you send it.
Reverse lookup when reading Melanau text. Paste Melanau words such as "atama" or "atina" and get the English entries back, with duplicate-target notes where the list has more than one English source for the same form.

Tips for Best Results

Keep requests short and literal. This is a substitution list, not a grammar engine, so sentence structure stays English-shaped.
Ask for the coverage report explicitly if you want the unmatched-word list on its own; it is included by default but easy to skim past.
If a word you need is missing, ask which nearby entries exist rather than assuming a translation was produced.

FAQ

What input does it accept?
Plain text up to a few thousand characters per request. Longer passages can be split into paragraphs; ask for them one at a time. No files, audio or images are needed.

How accurate is the result?
It is exact for entries in the fixed paired list and honest about everything else: unmapped words are preserved and reported, never invented. It does not produce full Melanau grammar, and it will not translate vocabulary outside the list.

How is this different from some free text tools?
Some free text tools show two boxes and a converted result with no explanation of matching rules or coverage. This agent states the matching order, preserves unmatched text, reports what it could not map, and supports an explicit reverse direction with duplicate handling.

Can it translate a whole document into fluent Melanau?
No. It substitutes known words and phrases and leaves the rest in English, which is the same scope as the fixed list it uses.

Before: I want to go to the market, my father is happy.
After: akow bak tabui ... atama diak. (Words with no list entry, such as "market", remain in English and appear in the coverage report.)