“growl” in Sgaw Karen

ကညီၤ

ga nyāw

growl

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“growl” is written ကညီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga nyāw. 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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လၢန့ၣ်အမဲာ်ညါပကညီၤသ့စ့ၢ်ကီး
And we can roar!
from “We Are All Animals”
အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤလီဝၢ်ဒံး လၢအိၣ်လၢလီၢ်ထီၣ်ထီ နဝၢ်နဒံးကပီၤဆူၣ်မး နမ့ၢ်ပှၤမၤပျံၤပှၤ အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤလီသီၣ် ကညီၤထီၣ်လၢမူခိၣ်ထံကျါ နသီၣ်သထြုးလၢတၢ်လီၢ်ကိးတီၤဒဲး
from “Hello”

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