“fish” in Sgaw Karen
ညၣ်
nyà
fish
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“fish” is written ညၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as nyà. 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
ယအဲၣ်ညၣ်ဖိ ဖဲယထံၣ်အီၤအခါ ယကယူၤလီၤဒီးဖီၣ်န့ၢ်အီၤ
I love fish. When I spot it, I fly down to pick it up.
from “Noisy Crows” →ထိးအီၣ်တၢ်သ့,ညၣ်ဖိပီၢ်ထံသ့,သၣ်မံၤညီခွ့ၤတၢ်သ့...ဒီးယနီၢ်ကစၢ်ဖးလံၥ်သ့န့ၣ်လီၤ!
Pigs can eat, fish can swim, cats can jump... and I can read!
from “Can and Can't” →