“boat” in Sgaw Karen
ချံ
khlee
boat
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“boat” is written ချံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as khlee. 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
တယံာ်ဘၣ် တၢ်မုၢ်တၢ်ဘိဖိတဖၣ်ကဆူထီၣ်အသးလၢတၢ်ချံ မုၢ်တနံၤအ၀ဲကကဲထီၣ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်ဖးဒိၣ် ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ကထီၣ်သၢကုၤဆးဒး ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ကထီၣ်သၢကုၤဆးဒး
Soon... A tiny little plant will come from the seed. One day it will be a tree. And green grass will grow all around. And green grass will grow all around.
from “The Tree” →ဆၢတီၢ်ဖဲအက့ၤလၢကျဲအခါန့ၣ် ကနဲဒီဖုညါဟးဖျိးကျဲမ့ၢ်လၢတၢ်ခံးဒိၣ်မး နါကိၢ်လံကိးအသကိးတဖၣ်ဟဲမၤစၢၤအီၤ နါကိၢ်လံတဖၣ်လ့ကပီၤထီၣ်န့ၢ်ကနဲအကျဲ စိဖံသူအမဲၣ်ချံဖးဒိၣ်လၢကကွၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
Flying home in the dark, the bees soon get lost. But Sophy's new friend calls his family to help. A huge swarm of fireflies light the way for the bees.
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →