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“behind, later” in Sgaw Karen

လၢခံ

luh khee

behind, later

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

“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

လၢခံကတၢၢ် ယမၤလိသ့သးလၢကက့ၤလီၤသ့န့ၣ်လီၤ
At last, I have learnt to climb down too!
from “I Can Climb!”
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”

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