“gourd, pumpkin” in Sgaw Karen
လူၢ်
loo̱
gourd, pumpkin
“gourd, pumpkin” is written လူၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as loo̱. 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
ဖဲဘၤတံဟဲက့ၤတုၤလၢအဟံၣ် အမိၢ်တဲဘၣ်အီၤလၢကဘၣ်လဲၤအိၣ်လူၢ်ထံ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အဝဲတလဲၤဘၣ်
When Bunty goes back home, her mother asks her to clean up. But she refuses.
from “Bunty and Bubbly” →ညၢ်ကျီၢ်ဒီးပီၤဒီးပီာ်လဲၣ်ပထံၣ်တုၤလၢညၢ် ဂီၤအလွဲၢ်လါဟ့တဖျၢၣ်ဖိ ဒီးပျၤမုာ်ဒီးသကး လိၢ်ကွဲ အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လိာ်သးဒီးလၢၢ်ဒိီလူၢ်ဒီဂ့ၢ်အိၣ်လီၤလၢလၢထံကျါ
There were triggerfish and sea urchins. We even saw a coral grouper and a reef octopus playing hide-and-seek.
from “Dive!” →