“darkness” in Sgaw Karen
တၢ်ခံး
ta khëe
darkness
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“darkness” is written တၢ်ခံး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta khëe. 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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ဆၢတီၢ်ဖဲအက့ၤလၢကျဲအခါန့ၣ် ကနဲဒီဖုညါဟးဖျိးကျဲမ့ၢ်လၢတၢ်ခံးဒိၣ်မး နါကိၢ်လံကိးအသကိးတဖၣ်ဟဲမၤစၢၤအီၤ နါကိၢ်လံတဖၣ်လ့ကပီၤထီၣ်န့ၢ်ကနဲအကျဲ စိဖံသူအမဲၣ်ချံဖးဒိၣ်လၢကကွၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤအိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤ လါဖိလၢအိၣ်ထီၣ်ထီလၢတၢ်ခံးသူအကျါ နမ့ၢ်ပှၤဟ့ၣ်မုၢ်နၤဒ်သိးအသုတခံးfrom “Hello”