“dad” in Sgaw Karen
ပါ
pah
dad
“dad” is written ပါ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as pah. 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
ပါပၢ်ဧၢ ပါပၢ် ယကီးဖှး ယပၢ်နံၤ စိၤနူး မၤလိနသးလၢက့ၤလီၤဒံးအသ့ ယပၢ်တဲ၀ဲ
"Papa! Papa!" I shout. Papa laughs. "Sonu, learn to climb down!" he says.
from “I Can Climb!” →ကဆီထံအသးတမုာ်လၢဘၣ် အသးတမုာ်ဘၣ်န့ၣ်တုဒၣ်လဲၢ်လၢအဂဲကလံၢ်တထီၣ်လၢဘၣ် အ၀ဲဒၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢလၢၢ်ခိၣ်ဒီးဟီၣ်၀ဲဒၣ် အမဲာ်ထံၤယွၤလီၤလၢအဘီးပါ လီၤစီၤလၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်
Hippo is sad. She is too sad to dance. She sits on a rock and cries. The tears roll down her cheeks and fall on the ground.
from “Hippo Wants to Dance” →