“ditch” in Sgaw Karen
တၢ်ကျိၤ
ta klōh
ditch
“ditch” is written တၢ်ကျိၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta klōh. 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
မိၤတံးထွံၣ်ဖိထံၣ်တိတိးဒိးသးကညီၤအီၤ မီၤတၢ်ဒီးအမဲာ်ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်ဆူ တၢ်ဆါတၢ်ပှ့ၤအလီၢ် အိၣ်ဖဲတၢ်ကပၤ အၤ—လၢခံကတၢၢ်တိတိးထံၣ်တၢ်ကျိၤလၢကပိာ်ထွဲဃုထံၣ်န့ၣ်က့ၤအီၤလံ--
Moti, the dog took pity on him. He barked and looked towards the store nearby. Ah! Toto finally had a lead.
from “Where is Gogo?” →