“drive” in Sgaw Karen

နီၣ်

naẁ

drive

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

“drive” is written နီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as naẁ. 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

တနီၤအိၣ်ဒီးအနီၣ်ဆံး
And some of them are tiny!
from “My Friends”
ဖြံးဖြံး ဒံဖယၤ တန့ၢ်ဂဲၤလိၣ်ကွဲထူဘီဘၣ် တုၤလၢအဆိက့ကဘျါ အဝဲသ့ၣ်နီၣ်ဘၣ်တံၤသကိးကိးဂၤဒဲး
Sniffle, sniffle. No more football for Divya until she gets better. She misses all her friends.
from “Sniffles”

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