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“back (of the body)” in Sgaw Karen

ချၢဃံ

khluh xee

back (of the body)

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

“back (of the body)” is written ချၢဃံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as khluh xee. 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

တဲနစုအတၢ်ဂ့ၤန့ၣ် ပာ်ကွံာ်အီၤဘျးမကံာ်အီၤလၢနချၢဃံကဂ့ၤတက့ၢ်
Hands! Keep your hands to yourself!
from “We Are All Animals”
"နဲဒၣ်န့ၣ် နဘၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ယဲယကယူၤလီၤလၢနချၢဃံ" ဆိထူတဲဘၣ် ကိလူဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ဆိထူတခွ့ထီၣ်ခီၣ်ဖးထီ
“You sit down. I’ll land on your back in one flying leap,” said Chhotu. Golu sat down. Chhotu took a mighty leap.
from “Playtime”

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