“gold” in Sgaw Karen
ထူ
hṭoo
gold
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“gold” is written ထူ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hṭoo. 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
လ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ထဲတထံၣ် ဆၢကပုာ်လုာ်ဒီးချံၣ် လ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ထဲတထံၣ်ယထူပျ့ၤထံလီၤလီၤ
Just one bite to taste it, sweet, juicy, cool, That one little taste is making me drool!
from “The Big Juicy Apple” →ဖြံးဖြံး ဒံဖယၤ တန့ၢ်ဂဲၤလိၣ်ကွဲထူဘီဘၣ် တုၤလၢအဆိက့ကဘျါ အဝဲသ့ၣ်နီၣ်ဘၣ်တံၤသကိးကိးဂၤဒဲး
Sniffle, sniffle. No more football for Divya until she gets better. She misses all her friends.
from “Sniffles” →