“bone” in Sgaw Karen
ဃံ
xee
bone
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“bone” is written ဃံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as xee. 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
တုၢ်! ဆိထူခွ့လီၤလၢကိလူအချၢဃံ "ဝီးဧူၤ" ကိလူနံၤဝဲဒၣ်ဝံၤဒီးတဲဝဲ "ယၤဒီးနီၢ် နဲနဘၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ဒီးယကခွ့လီၤလၢနချၢဃံတထံၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီး"
Thump! Chhotu landed on Golu’s back. “Wow!” laughed Golu. “My turn now. You sit down and I will leap on your back.”
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