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“grandmother” in Sgaw Karen

ဖံ

hpee

grandmother

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“grandmother” is written ဖံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpee. 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”
စိဖံယူၤထီထီၣ်ဒီးတဲဝဲ "ကွၢ်လၢန့ၣ် ယကမၤန့ၣ်ထံဆၢလၢအအါကတၢၢ်!" အဝဲယူၤဖုၣ်လီၤဒီးမၤန့ၢ်ထံဆၢလၢဖီတဖီးဘၣ်တဖီးအအိၣ် အဝဲတကနၣ်ဃုာ်ကနဲအဂၤဘၣ် တဘျီဘျီစိဖံကအီကွၢ်ဖီအထံဆၢစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
The bees work hard gathering nectar. But Sophy is not pleased that no one is paying attention to her. "Look everyone! I have already filled my jar with nectar. I even have enough left over for a snack."
from “Big-Eyed Bee”

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