“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.
This word in a story
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” →