“clean” in Sgaw Karen
စီ
saw
clean
“clean” is written စီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as saw. 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
အဝဲဒံးလဲၤ ဒံးစီစုၤယံၤထီၣ် ယံၤထီၣ်ဒီးထံကျိ
from “Little Goat” →အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤပစီၤထံ နမ့ၢ်နဲထံလီၤစီ နမၤကပုာ်တၢ်လီၢ် ဒီးမၤဘၣ်စီၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိိၣ်
from “Hello” →