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“behind” in Sgaw Karen

လီၢ်ခံ

law khee

behind

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

“behind” is written လီၢ်ခံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as law khee. 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

ယထီၣ်ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤသ့လံ ၀ံၤအလီၢ်ခံ ထီၣ်လၢစဘွဲခိၣ်သ့လံ
I climb on to the chair, and then on the table!
from “I Can Climb!”
စးထီၣ်လၢဖီဖးထီၣ် ဝံၤကနဲကဟဲဖီးလီာ်အီၤ ကနဲဟဲ၀ံၤအလီၢ်ခံသ့ၣ်ကကၠးထီၣ်သၣ်လီၤ
The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.
from “The Big Juicy Apple”

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