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“dot, point” in Sgaw Karen

ဖီး

hpaẅ

dot, point

“dot, point” is written ဖီး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpaẅ. 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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အမိၢ်အပၢ်ဖီးဟုၤတၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံး

Ant gets hugs from mum and dad.

from “Little Ant's Big Plan”

စးထီၣ်လၢဖီဖးထီၣ် ဝံၤကနဲကဟဲဖီးလီာ်အီၤ ကနဲဟဲ၀ံၤအလီၢ်ခံသ့ၣ်ကကၠးထီၣ်သၣ်လီၤ

The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.

from “The Big Juicy Apple”

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