“at once” in Sgaw Karen
တဘျီဃီ
ta blaw xaw
at once
“at once” is written တဘျီဃီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta blaw xaw. 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
တဘျီဃီ ဖဲပအိၣ်လၢထံဖီလာ် ပဒိးန့ၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်တူၢ်လိာ်ပှၤလၢညၢ်မူရိၤဘီတဒူၣ်
As soon as we were underwater, we were greeted by a school of yellowback fusiliers.
from “Dive!” →ဖဲးနၣ်အလီၢ်ခံ ကဆီထံအီၣ်နီၢ်အခါအိၣ်စီၤစုၤဒီးထံကျိ ပူၤ မ့ၢ်အူအလၢ်သပျီၢ်ထီၣ်တဘျီဃီ ကဆီထံအဆူၣ်အူအီၣ်
Later, Hippo was eating grass far from the river when, "Whoosh!" Fire burst into flame. The flames began to burn Hippo’s hair.
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair” →