“bamboo strip” in Sgaw Karen
ဆှါ
hshgah
bamboo strip
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“bamboo strip” is written ဆှါ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hshgah. 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
ထံကျိကပါလီၤမၢ်ကွံာ်နၤသ့လီၢ် လံၣ်လူၣ်လၢအဆှါတဲပလီၢ်အီၤfrom “How Ant Saved Dove”ဒီးတၢ်ဖိဃၢ်အံၤ မ့ၢ်ဝဲ စိလံ ဒူးလီၤ ဆှါဒိၣ်မး ဆိကမိၣ်တၢ်ယံာ် သီၣ်ဒိၣ် ဒီးမၤအကလုၢ်သီၣ် အူအး ဒီး ဒူး ဒူး ဒီတနၤညါလီၤfrom “ဒူး—ဒူးသၢဒု”