“earth” in Sgaw Karen

ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်

hàw kòh

earth

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

“earth” is written ဟီၣ်ခိၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hàw kòh. 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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ထီးလၢအလီၤသးကညီၤတဒု အ၀ဲလီၤတဲာ်အနးဒ့လီၤဘၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖျၢၣ် လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိအနးဒ့ဘံၣ်နာ်လီၤ
Poor pig! When he fell, he landed on his nose. And his nose was flattened into a snout.
from “No Pigs Allowed”
ကွၢ်လၢအံၤဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိတဖၣ်ဧၢ ယမ့ၢ်ပှၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖိ ယမ့ၢ်ပှၤလၢအသ့ၣ်ညါတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တဖၣ်ကိးမံၤဒဲး
Look at me, animals! I am a human being! I know everything!
from “We Are All Animals”

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