# Sikkimese Translator Internship at CryptoMize A Sikkimese translator at CryptoMize converts written material between English and Drenjongkê — Sikkim's Tibetic language, set down in Tibetan script — for engagements centered on the Gangtok belt. The work is defined by two inheritances: the dbu-can script that must be produced flawlessly, and honorific registers that decide how a document addresses its reader before a single content word lands. The Sikkimese Translator Internship in Delhi at CryptoMize is a six-month certified program, intake open year-round, for freshers who write Drenjongkê and want a rare-script profession on it. The desk handles written Sikkimese for real engagements from early in the program: official-adjacent notices, community documents, and cultural material moving between English and Tibetan script. Interns drill dbu-can production to flawlessness, learn written honorific register as a decision made per document, and build a reviewed portfolio across the six months. The work, the eligibility bar, and the selection process follow in full. ## Facts - Location: New Delhi (HQ), CDR Building, Chhatarpur - Type: 6-month internship, certification provided - Availability: immediate, rolling intake (always hiring) - Compensation: discussed at screening ## What you will actually do - Move real paperwork between English and Drenjongkê — bulletins, announcements, heritage pieces — under the desk\'s correction loop - Set each document\'s deference tier first: the language encodes respect in its wording, and that choice is settled before drafting starts - Render dbu-can stacks flawlessly — headed letters, correct clusters, spacing that literate eyes never stumble over - Put recorded Drenjongkê speech into clean script as feedstock for the desk\'s rendering line - Mark references that will not cross languages honestly, and suggest a re-thought line in their place - Run your own pre-submission pass — script correctness, deference tier held, stacked-letter layout checked - Draft local-facing pieces so they belong to the people they address, not to a converter - Finish the half-year with a mentored body of script work spanning official, neighborhood, and observance tiers ## Skills - Mother-tongue Drenjongkê on paper - Flawless dbu-can production, drilled to zero defects - Deference-tier choice per document - English source reading for intent and address-form - Honest marking of what cannot cross - Speech-to-script rendering of recorded audio - Pre-submission pass, logged before corrections arrive - Stack-layout awareness for headed letters - Weight judgment in official pieces - Term digging in a thinly resourced language - Punctual output on a live slate - Tact with local-sensitive paperwork ## Tools - Smartcat workspace for Sikkimese-English pairs - Tibetan-script input and rendering stack (Unicode Tibetan) - Desk register guide — honorific decisions recorded per document type - Xbench-style QA pass tuned for script errors - Sikkimese terminology pack shared with the interpreting desk ## Questions and answers ### What does a Sikkimese Translator intern do at CryptoMize? You translate notices, community documents, and cultural material between English and Sikkimese in Tibetan script, set honorific register per document, and run QA passes on every draft under senior review. ### What script does the desk work in? Tibetan script — principally dbu-can, the headed style with stacked letters. Production correctness is absolute here: a malformed stack is simply a wrong letter, so Month 1 drills it to zero-defect. ### How do honorifics work in written Sikkimese? The language encodes deference in its wording, so a document's register — how it addresses its reader — is a decision made before drafting. Official notices and community text carry different honorific loads, and the training treats that choice as strategy. ### Do I need Nepali for this translation desk? Helpful but not required — written work is Sikkimese-English. Awareness of Sikkim's multilingual document reality matters, since Sikkimese text is always a deliberate channel choice, and the desk will teach that context. ### Is the internship paid? Compensation is set at screening against demonstrated skill, engagement class, urgency, and record. No figures are published; each offer is individual. ### How long is the program and what certification comes with it? Six months at our New Delhi HQ, certificate on completion — and a reviewed portfolio across official, community, and cultural registers, which is what the desk hires on. ### What does selection involve? An application, a short two-way translation sample including a script-production check, and a register-judgment conversation with the desk lead. Roughly two weeks. Apply: https://cryptomize.com/careers/internship/apply/