“axe” in Sgaw Karen

ကွါ

kwah

axe

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“axe” is written ကွါ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kwah. 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.

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ဖဲက့ၤလၢကျဲန့ၣ်မူခိၣ်စူၤလီၤတမျၢၣ် တဖျၢၣ် တယံၥ်ဘၣ်စူၤလီၤ၀ဲဖးဒိၣ် ကပီၤအ့နဲသံၣ် ပ၁်လီၤအသိၣ်ဃၤလၢကျဲဃၢၤအ၀ဲဒၣ်လဲၤအိၣ်သူလၢသ့ၣ်ခီၣ်ထံး ဖဲန့ၣ်အကွါဃီၤလၢသိၣ်ဃၤလၢအလုၢ်အိၣ်ပှ့ၤအိၣ်ထီဘိ
On the way, it started to drizzle. Soon the drizzle turned into a heavy downpour. Anansi left his basket on the side of the road to shelter under a tree. From there he kept a close watch on his precious basket.
from “Anansi and Vulture”

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