“dark” in Sgaw Karen
ခံး
kheë
dark
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“dark” is written ခံး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kheë. 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
"အကွံလီၤသ့ အခွ့ထီၣ်ခွ့လီၤသ့ အတရံးသးသ့ ဘျးလီၤစဲဟူးဝးသ့ ဟးဟါ ဟံးဟံး"ယဖံနံၤထီၣ် ခံးခံး န့ၣ်လီၤအိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤ လါဖိလၢအိၣ်ထီၣ်ထီလၢတၢ်ခံးသူအကျါ နမ့ၢ်ပှၤဟ့ၣ်မုၢ်နၤဒ်သိးအသုတခံးfrom “Hello”