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“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”

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