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“colour” in Sgaw Karen

အလွဲၢ်

a lweh

colour

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“colour” is written အလွဲၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as a lweh. 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.

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တခီးသၣ်မံဂီၤကပုာ်လုးဖျါလီၤအီၣ် အသၣ်ကိပူၤအလွဲၢ်ဘီကပြုၢ်
This juicy, red apple looks delicious and fresh, Inside of the skin is bright yellow flesh.
from “The Big Juicy Apple”
ညၢ်ကွဲၤပူၤခိၣ်ဒူဆီတလဲအလွဲၢ်ဒ်သိးကမၤကွၢ်တၢ်အိၣ်အသးဒ်သိးကမၤအသးလီၤဂာ်ဒီၤညၢ်တခွ့ဆၣ်ဘီဘၣ်ဆၣ်သုကတိၢ်န့ၣ်အီၤတကီဘၣ် တမ့ၢ်ဧါ
This trumpetfish changed colour to try and blend in with a school of yellow tang, but you can pick him out easily enough, can’t you?
from “Dive!”

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