“book” in Sgaw Karen
လံာ်
leẹ
book
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“book” is written လံာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as leẹ. 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
လၢယခီၣ် ယဟး ယဃ့ၢ်ဒီးဂဲၤကလံာ်သ့စ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
And I can walk, run and even dance with my feet.
from “We Are All Animals” →ယဃုလၢယဒၢးပူၤကိးဆူးဒဲး ယဃုအိးထီၣ်ယလံာ်ကိးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲး
I have looked in every room, l have looked under every book.
from “Lost and Found” →