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“best” in Sgaw Karen

ဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်

ghāy ga tuh

best

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

“best” is written ဂ့ၤကတၢၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ghāy ga tuh. 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

နသ့ၣ်ညါစ့ၢ်ကီးဧါ မတၤလၢအမ့ၢ်ယတံၤသကိးအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်? တဂၤလဲၣ်? တဂၤလဲၣ် ? တဂၤလဲၣ်?
But who is my best friend? Who? Who? Who?
from “My Friends”
ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်လၢဟံၣ်ပူၤမ့ၢ်ဝဲယဂီၢ် မ့ၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢပှၤဟုလၣ်န့ၣ်ဂ့ၤတက့ၢ်ဧါ?
The best chair in the house is for me. But sitting on the lap is even better, isn’t it?
from “Clean Cat”

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