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“day (when counting days)” in Sgaw Karen

သီ

thaw

day (when counting days)

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

“day (when counting days)” is written သီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thaw. 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

ထွံၣ်အဲၣ်ဒီးပှ့ၤခီၣ်ဖံးသီတကူၢ် ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အကၠ့တကူဘၣ်
Dog wanted to buy new shoes. But he did not have enough money.
from “Goat, Dog, Cow, and TV”
ဘၣ်တနၤ အဝဲမံမီၢ်ဝဲလၢတၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဟဲအိၣ်ဝးတရံးအဃိာ်မဲး ဒီးမၤအၢမၤသီအနီၢ်ကစၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
One night, she has a dream. The germs are all around her castle, and are attacking her.
from “Bunty and Bubbly”

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