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“eye, face” in Sgaw Karen

မဲာ်

meḥ

eye, face

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

“eye, face” is written မဲာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as meḥ. 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

ယပၢ်ပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ဆံၤတူအမဲာ်ဒီး ယမိၢ်ပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ယၤခိၣ်မီၣ်လါအဲး ဒီးပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ယပုၢ်လၢကိာ်ကမၢလီၤ
Papa bought Chintu fancy glasses. Mother bought me a bright blue cap. The baby got sugar candy.
from “The Moon and the Cap”
ကဆီထံအသးတမုာ်လၢဘၣ် အသးတမုာ်ဘၣ်န့ၣ်တုဒၣ်လဲၢ်လၢအဂဲကလံၢ်တထီၣ်လၢဘၣ် အ၀ဲဒၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢလၢၢ်ခိၣ်ဒီးဟီၣ်၀ဲဒၣ် အမဲာ်ထံၤယွၤလီၤလၢအဘီးပါ လီၤစီၤလၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်
Hippo is sad. She is too sad to dance. She sits on a rock and cries. The tears roll down her cheeks and fall on the ground.
from “Hippo Wants to Dance”

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