“to speak” på Sgaw Karen
ကတိၤ
ga tōh
to speak
“to speak” skrives ကတိၤ på Sgaw Karen, lest på en grov måte som ga tōh. 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.
Ordet i en fortelling
အ၀ဲနၢ်ဟူကပီယူၤ မီးကွၢ်ထီၣ်ဆူမူကပိာ်လိး တၢ်မနုၤအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ဖီခိၣ်န့ၣ်လဲၣ် အ၀ဲသံကွၢ်ယၤ ပှၤတစံးဆၢအီၤနီဆဂၤဘၣ် အသးဒ့ဒီမ့ၢ်တၢ်အၢၣ်ကိၣ်လိၣ်တဖၣ်ကတိၤသကိးတၢ်စ့ၢ်ဧါ
She heard the sound of an airplane. Mod looked up into the sky. "What is up there?" she asked. "I wonder if the clouds are talking." But no one answered her.
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They summoned Anansi and Vulture again. "We believe Vulture’s story," they said. "He is not the thief. You were trying to claim something that was not yours." Anansi could not believe his ears!
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