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“because of” in Sgaw Karen

အဃိ

a xoh

because of

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

“because of” is written အဃိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as a xoh. 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

ပတိကီးညၢ်ကမီအဒံး၀ါတကူၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးဖဲအသူၣ် ဘူၣ် လိၤဖဲအခံကိၢ်န့ၣ်မၤအၢတၢ်တသ့အါဘၣ်အဃိပပီၢ်ထံလဲၤကွၢ်အီၤဘူၣ်ဘူၣ်လီၤ
We came across a couple of whitetip reef sharks resting near the bottom. They’re pretty harmless, so we swam in for a closer look.
from “Dive!”
မီးတအဲၣ်ဒီးဃာ်ကဒါအသးမ့ၢ်လၢပျံၤကထံၣ်ခွံၢ်ကဒီး အဃိအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်ဖဲသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအပူၤ ကထံၣ်ထဲအမဲာ်ချံဖျၢၣ်ဖးဒိၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ပျံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ မီးဘၣ်တၢ်ပ၀ီၤဃာ်အီၤလၢမ့ၢ်အူ၀းတရံး
Mod was frightened of the hyena, but did not want to turn around and face the chameleon either, so she stayed hidden in the bushes. The fire came closer, and closer!
from “Mod the Toad”

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