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“cricket” in Sgaw Karen

သကံၤ

tha kēe

cricket

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“cricket” is written သကံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as tha kēe. 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

စံးဒ် စံံးဒ် တၢ်အံၤမတၤလဲၣ် "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" ယမ့ၢ်သကံၤ "သကံၤစံးဆၢ" ယကိးသီၣ်ဖဲမုၢ်လီၤနုၥ် နအဲၣ်ဒီးကဲယသကီးစ့ၢ်ဧါ "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" န့ၢ်သၢၣ် "သကံၤစံးဆၢ"
"CHIRRRRRP! CHIRRRRRP!" "Who is here?" Tinku asked. "I’m a cricket," said the cricket. "I chirp when it is dark." "Will you be my friend?" asked Tinku. "Yes, I will!" said the cricket.
from “Goodnight, Tinku!”

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