“behind, later” in Sgaw Karen
လၢခံ
luh khee
behind, later
“behind, later” is written လၢခံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as luh 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
လၢခံတနံၤန့ၣ်ဖဲယမၤလိတၢ်ကၠိပျၢ်န့ၣ် ယမိၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ယၤလၢခိၣ်မီၣ်ဂီၤကတြ့ာ်အသီတဘ့ၣ် ဒီးတဲယၤလၢလါဖိဟ့ၣ်နၤလီၤ
After school the next day, my mother gave me a shiny new red cap. "The moon sent it," she said.
from “The Moon and the Cap” →