“bamboo” in Sgaw Karen
ဝၣ်
wà
bamboo
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“bamboo” is written ဝၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as wà. 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
အိၣ်တကၠိၢ် ကၠိး၀ၣ်ဃးတဘ့ၣ်ဟဲယူၤ၀း၀းဒီးထံၣ်စိၣ်ဃၤအိၣ်လၢကျဲဃၢၤ အထံၣ်ကၠ့ဒီးဘုခ့ချံအိၣ်လၢစိၣ်ဃၤပူၤဒ်န့ၣ်သိး အကယၢ်ထီၣ်အဒံးမၤဘၢစိၣ်ဃၤ ခိးတုၤမူခိၣ်ယီၤစိၣ်ဃၤ
A little while later, Vulture was flying around and spotted the basket on the side of the road. He saw that there was money and maize in the basket. So he covered the basket with his wings and waited for the rain to stop.
from “Anansi and Vulture” →အ၀ဲပာ်ကဖၢအသးလၢအမ့ၢ်တၢ်အခီလၢဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ညီလၢဟံၣ်ဒူၣ်ပူၤ စီး၀ၣ်ဃး၀ၣ်ဃးအဂၤတဖၣ်ထံၣ်လၢခါအးအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်သူၣ်မုာ်သးမုာ်အါမး မ့ၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ် နကဖျီသးဖဲအဆိအံၤဧါ အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်တဲလိာ်ကွဲအီခါအးအမဲာ်ဂီၤထီၣ်
She was proud that she was part of such a generous family. The other crows saw Kaage looking extremely happy with herself. "What is it, Kaage? Are you getting married soon?" they teased. Kaage blushed.
from “The Generous Crow” →