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“glue” in Sgaw Karen

ကီၣ်

kàw

glue

“glue” is written ကီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kàw. 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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တယံာ်ဘၣ်ဒီးယဖံဟဲက့ၤလၢအတၢ်ဟးလိၢ်ကွဲ "ကွၢ်လၢန့ၣ်ယဖံတိကီၣ်မတၤတမံၤလၢကရၢၢ်ပူၤလဲၣ်"

Soon granny came back from her walk. "Look what I found in the park."

from “Lost and Found”

အဝဲဆါတဲာ်တီသၣ်လၢတ့ၢ်လီၤထံအပှ့ၤဘၣ် ဒီးဆၣ်ဖိကီၣ်ဖိတဖၣ်ဟဲပှ့ၤတဲာ်တီသၣ်လၢ ဖီးစံး ကၠိၤစံး အအိၣ်

from “ဖိးစံး ကၠိၤစံး ၈ဲၤတၢ်မၤကဒါမဲာ်”

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