ပ၀ဲနၤဒီးယၤပမ့ၢ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိလၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ချၢ
We Are All Animals
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ကွၢ်လၢအံၤဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိတဖၣ်ဧၢ ယမ့ၢ်ပှၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖိ ယမ့ၢ်ပှၤလၢအသ့ၣ်ညါတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တဖၣ်ကိးမံၤဒဲး
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Look at me, animals! I am a human being! I know everything!
အအံၤမ့ၢ်ယမဲာ်ချံ လၢအဒုးထံၣ်ယၤတၢ်ကိးမံၤဒဲး
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Look, these are my eyes. I can see everything with them.
ဒ်လဲၣ်ခီလဲၣ် ပအိၣ်ဒီးမဲာ်ချံစ့ၢ်ကီး အါန့ၣ်အန့ၣ်ပထံၣ်တၢ်လၢမုၢ်နၤခီစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
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So what? We have eyes too. And we can see in the dark!
ဆၢး မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်ဒီးကွၢ်လၢယနးဒ့ ယသူနးဒ့လၢကသါန့ၣ်ကလံၤ
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Fine, but look at my nose. I breathe through my nose.
ဒ်လဲၣ်ခီလဲၣ် ပနးဒ့အိၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီး တကးဒ်ဘၣ်ဖျါဂ့ၤန့ၣ်နတၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
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So what? We also have noses and ours are prettier than yours!
မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်ဒီး ကွၢ်ယမဲ ယသူယမဲလၢကအ့ၣ်တၢ်ဒီးဂံာ်ဘျဲးတၢ်ကိးမံၤ
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And yes, my teeth. I use my teeth to chew and bite.
တဲနမဲအတၢ်ဂ့ၤဧါ ဟၤဟါ အံၤနထံၣ်ပမဲလံဧါ နဂံာ်ဘျဲးတၢ်သ့ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ပဝဲပသူပမဲအ့ၣ်ဖျိတၢ်လီၤ... ဟံးဟံး
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Teeth? Ha! Ha! Have you seen our teeth? You can chew. But WE CAN BITE! Hiee..Hiee…Hiee…
ကနၢ်လၢအံၤ ယနၢ်ဟူတၢ်သ့ယံၤစၢၢ်တလၢၢ် ခီဖျိလၢယနၢ်ခံပၤ
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Yes, but listen! I can hear a lot with my ears!
တၢ်ဖိသၣ်ဧၢ ပဝဲဲပနၢ်ဟူတၢ်ကလုၢ်လၢနတသ့ၣ်ညါဒၣ်လဲၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
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Little one! We can hear sounds which you cannot imagine at all!
လၢယခီၣ် ယဟး ယဃ့ၢ်ဒီးဂဲၤကလံာ်သ့စ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
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And I can walk, run and even dance with my feet.
အၢဟၢ ပဝဲပခီၣ်အိၣ်လွံၣ်ခီတခွ့ တၢ်သ့ ပဂဲၤကလံာ်ဒီးဟးရဲၣ်လီၤသးခါခီၣ်ဃူဃူသ့လီၤ
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Oh! We have four feet! We can jump, we can dance and we can parade too!
ယသံၣ်ယခိၣ်သူသ့စ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
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I can plait my hair.
ပဝဲပခိၣ်သူဂ့ၤစ့ၢ်ကီးမ့ၢ်မၤနီၢ်နီၢ်န့ၣ်ပသံၣ်ပခိၣ်သူသ့လီၤ
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Uh! Our hair is pretty too. We could plait it if we wanted to. Maybe!
မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်ဒီးကွၢ်လၢအံၤယစုမၤတၢ်သ့အကလုာ်တဖၣ်လီၤ
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Look! I can work with my hands!
တဲနစုအတၢ်ဂ့ၤန့ၣ် ပာ်ကွံာ်အီၤဘျးမကံာ်အီၤလၢနချၢဃံကဂ့ၤတက့ၢ်
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Hands! Keep your hands to yourself!
တၢ်ဒုးနဲၣ်အကတီၢ်-၂
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ACT-2
ထံၣ်လံဧါ ယတဲနၤလံယၤယသ့ကတၢၢ် ယသ့ၣ်ညါတၢ်ကိးမံၤ
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Aha! I told you! I am the best! I know it all!
မ့ၢ်ဧါ နထံၣ်ပစုမ့ၢ်ခီၣ်မ့ၢ်လၢအစူဒီးအ့ၣ်လံဧါ
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Really? Have you seen our sharp claws?
ဘၣ်မနၤလၢတထံၣ်ဘၣ်လဲၣ် သုစုမ့ၢ်ခီၣ်မ့ၢ်သ့ဒၣ်ထဲခူၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဘၣ်အၢ
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Yes! But your nails will pick up dirt!
အအံၤမ့ၢ်ပမဲၢ်လၢအလီၤအဲၣ် လီၤကွံ
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Now see, these are our lovely tails.
အိးအိၤ ပမဲၢ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ်ယံာ်လံ ပမဲၢ်မ့ၢ်အိၣ်ပကူဖျီၣ်ခံတသ့ဘၣ်လီၤ
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Tails! We gave them up long ago! How else could we wear our shorts?
လၢန့ၣ်အမဲာ်ညါပကညီၤသ့စ့ၢ်ကီး
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And we can roar!
ဆၢး... နတနၢ်ဟူယမိၢ်အကလုၢ်ဖဲအသးထိၣ်တၢ်အခါဒ်ဘၣ်
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Roar? Have you heard my mother?
သုဝဲသ့ၣ်သုမ့ၢ်ဒၣ်ထဲဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိယိယိယသ့ၣ်ညါလီၤ
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So then! You are only animals - I know that!
ပှၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖိမ့ၢ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိလီၤဂာ်ပှၤပသ့ၣ်ညါစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
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Humans are animals too. We know that!
ကမ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်မီၤ ကွၢ်ယပုၢ်ယမိၢ်တဲဝဲလၢအလံကျိအါကဲးဆိးလီၤဂာ်ဒီးသုန့ၣ်လီၤ
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You may be right. Look at my brother! Mother says he is wild. He is definitely an animal.
မ့ၢ်ဝဲသၢၣ် ကနၢ်ဧီၤ ပဝဲတဖၣ်ပမ့ၢ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိဒ်သိးသိး ပဘၣ်ဃးဒီးဟီၣ်ခိၣ်တနီၤဒ်သိးဒီးနၤလီၤ
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Yes! And so are you! Believe us! We are all animals. We all belong here. Just like you.
Words in this story
- ကွၢ်to look
- လၢin, at
- အံၤthis
- ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိanimal
- တnot (negative prefix)
- ယI, my
- မ့ၢ်to be
- ပှၤperson
- ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်earth
- ဖိchild
- အhis, her, its
- သ့ၣ်ညါto know
- တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်matter, reason
- ကိးto call
- မံၤname
- ဒဲးto pluck
- မဲာ်ချံeye
- ဒုးto cause (someone to do); to fight
- ထံၣ်to see
- ယၤme
- တၢ်thing
- ဒ်လဲၣ်how
- ခီside
- ပwe, our
- အိၣ်ဒီးto have
- စ့ၢ်ကီးalso
- အါto be many
- န့ၣ်that
- အန့ၣ်that one
- မုၢ်နၤခီnight
- လီၤto go down
- မ့မ့ၢ်if
- ဒ်န့ၣ်like that
- ဒီးand
- ဒ့to play (an instrument)
- သူto use
- ကwill (future marker)
- သါto breathe
- ကလံၤwind
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- ဘၣ်to hit
- ဖျါto be visible
- ဂ့ၤgood
- နyou, your
- မဲtooth
- အ့ၣ်to bite
- ဂံာ်to grind, grate
- ဘျဲးto crush
- တဲto tell
- ဧါ(yes/no question particle)
- ဟါevening
- လံalready (completed)
- သ့to wash
- ဘၣ်ဆၣ်but
- ဖျိthrough
- ဟံးto take, hold
- နၢ်ear
- နၢ်ဟူto hear
- ယံၤto be far
- စၢၢ်lead (metal)
- လၢၢ်stone
- ခံtwo
- ဖိသၣ်kid
- ပနၢ်water buffalo
- ဟူto be heard, to hear
- တၢ်ကလုၢ်voice, word
- ခီၣ်leg
- ဟးto walk
- ဃ့ၢ်to run
- ဂဲၤto move
- လံာ်book
- အၢbad
- သးheart
- ခါstep, pace
- သံၣ်comb
- ခိၣ်သူhair
- မၤto cause
- နီၢ်နီၢ်really, truly
- စုhand
- ကလုာ်kind, type
- ပာ်to put
- ကွံာ်to throw
- အီၤit, him, her
- ချၢဃံback (of the body)
- ဒုးနဲၣ်to show
- ကတီၢ်period of time, term
- နၤnight
- ကတၢၢ်the end; the most (superlative)
- မ့ၢ်လၢbecause
- စူsharp, pointed
- သုyou (plural)
- ထဲonly
- ခူၣ်to dig
- ဘၣ်အၢdirty
- မဲၢ်tail
- လီၤအဲၣ်to be lovable, cute
- ကွံpool (of water)
- ယံာ်to last
- ပကူPaku (Karen group)
- ဖျီၣ်ခံtrousers
- တသ့ဘၣ်cannot
- မဲာ်ညါfront
- ကညီၤgrowl
- တနၢ်harp
- မိၢ်mother
- ကလုၢ်voice, word
- ဖဲnecklace
- ထိၣ်bird
- အခါwhen, while
- သ့ၣ်tree
- လီၤဂာ်seem
- မီၤto bark
- ပုၢ်younger sibling
- ဒ်သိးသိးalike, the same
- ဘၣ်ဃးဒီးabout, concerning
- တနီၤsome
- ဒ်သိးlike, as
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.