“grandmother” in Sgaw Karen
ဖံ
hpee
grandmother
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“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.
This word in a story
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” →