“beak” in Sgaw Karen
နိး
nöh
beak
“beak” is written နိး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as nöh. 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
ဒီး, စီၤကါကး နၣ်ဟူတၢ်သီၣ်! ပး,ပး,ပး,! မ့ၢ်မတၤမၤသီၣ်တၢ်တဂၤလဲၣ် ဒါနိစါဧိဒံနိး! စီၤကါကးသူၣ်ခုသးခုဒိၣ်မး လၢထံၣ်ဘၣ် ဒံနိး
Kaka hears a sound! Dup, Dup, Dup! What makes this beat? It is Dinoo the dinosaur! Kaka is glad to see Dinoo.
from “Sing in the Rain” →