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“animal” in Sgaw Karen

ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိ

hsà poh gaw poh

animal

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“animal” is written ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hsà poh gaw poh. Knyaw helps you read and understand words, not say them out loud. Karen is a tone language, so the English-letter sounds are only a rough help.


This word in a story

ပတသီၣ်ဒိၣ်ဒိၣ်ဒ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိအဂၤတဖၣ်ဘၣ် လၢပကျိာ်န့ၣ် ပဘၣ်သူပနးဒ့လၢကနၢတၢ်ပလုၢ်အဂီၢ်လီၤ
We are not noisy like other animals. Ours is a language of smells.
from “Busy Ants”
ကွၢ်လၢအံၤဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိတဖၣ်ဧၢ ယမ့ၢ်ပှၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖိ ယမ့ၢ်ပှၤလၢအသ့ၣ်ညါတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တဖၣ်ကိးမံၤဒဲး
Look at me, animals! I am a human being! I know everything!
from “We Are All Animals”

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