“I think about the days of old, the years of long ago.” på Sgaw Karen
ယ ဆိကမိၣ်တၢ် လၢမုၢ်နံၤ လၢပျၢၤ အဂ့ၢ်အကျိၤ နံၣ်ဧိၤလါဧိၤ လၢကစၢၤကစၢၤန့ၣ်လီၤ
ya hsoh ga mòh ta luh mu nēe luh plūh a ghay a klōh nèe ōh lah ōh luh ga sūh ga sūh này lāw
I think about the days of old, the years of long ago.
“I think about the days of old, the years of long ago.” skrives ယ ဆိကမိၣ်တၢ် လၢမုၢ်နံၤ လၢပျၢၤ အဂ့ၢ်အကျိၤ နံၣ်ဧိၤလါဧိၤ လၢကစၢၤကစၢၤန့ၣ်လီၤ på Sgaw Karen, lest på en grov måte som ya hsoh ga mòh ta luh mu nēe luh plūh a ghay a klōh nèe ōh lah ōh luh ga sūh ga sūh này lāw. Knyaw hjelper deg å lese og forstå ord, ikke å si dem høyt. Karen er et tonespråk, så lydene i engelske bokstaver er bare en grov hjelp.
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ကစၢၢ်တဖၣ် စံၣ်တၢ် ဒ်သိဖါအသိး တၢ်စိခိၣ်န့ၣ် ဒ်သိဖိ အသိးန့ၣ်လီၤThe mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.ကစၢ်herreကစၢ် ယ့ၣ်ၡူး အဘျုးအဖှိၣ်န့ၣ် မ်အအိၣ်ဒီး သု တက့ၢ်May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.ကစၢ် အကလုၢ်အကထါ ဟူထီသါလီၤ ဒီကီၢ်ညါန့ၣ်လီၤThe word of the Lord spread through the whole region.ကစၢ်ယွၤGudကတိၤဒိၣ် ပှၤ လၢအမၤတၢ် လၢပဂီၢ် အါမး နီၢ်မၤရံ တက့ၢ်Greet Mary, who worked very hard for us.ကနၣ် ယတၢ်ကတိၤ လီၤတံၢ်လီၤဆဲး ဒီးယစံးဘၣ်တဲဘၣ်တၢ်န့ၣ် လၢသုနၢ် တက့ၢ်Listen carefully to my words; let what I say ring in your ears.ကယဲၢ် တၢ်ဖံးတၢ်ညၣ် ကသံ တပူၤဃီ ဒီးပှၤကညီ ကကဲက့ၤ ဟီၣ်ခိၣ် အကမူၣ်လီၤAll flesh would perish together, and people would return to dust.