“day” in Sgaw Karen
နံၤ
neē
day
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“day” is written နံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as neē. 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
ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဲဆၢအီၤ ဟဲက့ၤမၤကွၢ်လၢမုၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးနံၤမီၤ
The snail said, "Come and see on Sunday."
from “The Race” →ပါပၢ်ဧၢ ပါပၢ် ယကီးဖှး ယပၢ်နံၤ စိၤနူး မၤလိနသးလၢက့ၤလီၤဒံးအသ့ ယပၢ်တဲ၀ဲ
"Papa! Papa!" I shout. Papa laughs. "Sonu, learn to climb down!" he says.
from “I Can Climb!” →