“beautiful” in Sgaw Karen

ဃံလၤ

xee lā

beautiful

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“beautiful” is written ဃံလၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as xee lā. 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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ဖီအကမူၣ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်ဖိပျံလၢသဲၣ်ဖးလီၤဆုညီ ဖီကမူၣ်ဒုးကဲထီၣ်တၢ်ချံ ကနဲမ့ၣ်ပှၤဆှၢတၢ်လၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်မ့ၢ်လၢအ၀ဲသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အဃိတၢ်မဲတၢ်မါအသီသီအါအါဂီၢ်ဂီၢ်ဒိၣ်ထီၣ်မဲထီၣ်ဃံလၤသကုၤဆးဒးလီၤ
Pollen is the powdery grain on flowers. Pollen helps plants to make seeds. Bees are excellent pollinators. Thanks to them, many new plants grow and sprout all around.
from “Why Do Bees Buzz?”
ထံကူးပ၁်လီၤသးလဲၤထီၣ်ကွၢ်ကီတၢ်ဆူအံၤဆူနုၤ ကွၢ်ထီၣ်တၢ်မူကပိာ်လိၤ ထံကူးထံၣ်လါက၀ီၤဖးဒိၣ် ကပီၤဖျါဆှံမး ဆှၢန့ၣ်အီၤတၢ်နံၤကမှံမၤမု၁်အသးဒိၣ်မး မုၢ်နၤခါအံၤဃံလၤမးလီၤ ထံကူးဆိမိၣ်၀ဲလၢအသးပူၤ
So he set off into the night to see what he could find. Up in the sky, Tinku saw the moon, white and round, smiling down at him. He felt very happy. ‘Night is beautiful,’ thought Tinku.
from “Goodnight, Tinku!”

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