“friend” in Sgaw Karen

တံၤသကိး

tēe tha köh

friend

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

“friend” is written တံၤသကိး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as tēe tha köh. 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

ဖဲမုၢ်ဆ့ၣ်ထီၣ် ယတံၤသကိးက့ၤနုာ်က့ၤဆူမဲာ်ထံကလၤအပူၤလီၤ
In the morning, my friend will go back into the mirror.
from “My Best Friend”
ရှံနၢ်မ့ၢ်ယတံၤသကိးလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ် ယအိၣ်ခိးရှံနၢ်ဖဲအကၠိစံၣ်လီၤအဆၢကတီၢ်လီၤ
Cheena is my best friend. I wait for her to return from school.
from “Clean Cat”

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