“female” in Sgaw Karen
မုၣ်
mù
female
“female” is written မုၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mù. 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
တအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ဒၢပူၤဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢယပုၢ်မုၣ်အဆ့ဖီလၣ်ဘၣ်
Not in the box. Not under my sister's frock.
from “Lost and Found” →ဒီးနၤတနၤန့ၣ် လါဖိဒီးယၤပကကၢၣ်ထီၣ်သကိးခိၣ်မီၣ်ဒီးနံၤကမှံၤထီၣ် ပှဲၤဒီးတၢ်သးမုၣ်လီၤ
That night, both the moon and I wore our caps and smiled. We were happy.
from “The Moon and the Cap” →