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“hammock” in Sgaw Karen

စုာ်

sụ

hammock

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

“hammock” is written စုာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as sụ. 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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ဂ့ၤလၢပပာ်တၢ်အိၣ်စီၤမုၤလိာ်လူဒ်သိးပကပူၤဖျဲးဒီးညၢ်အံၤအဆုၢ်လၢအလီၢ်ခံအိၣ်ဒီအစုာ်လၢအၢဒိၣ်မး

It’s a good thing we kept a safe distance from this lionfish. The spines on his back can be quite poisonous!

from “Dive!”

တၢ်နီၢ်ကီၢ်မ့ၢ်ပလီဖီးစလဲန်တဖျၢာ်ဃီလၢဒံၣ်ဒူၣ်ဖိကိးဂၤစုာ်လီၤသ့ၣ်ထူးမဲလၢအပူၤပာ်ဖံအနီလၢအမဲဘီဒီးသူလၢအသ့ၣ်ထူးမဲကၢကီာ်လိာ်သးဒီးအမဲန့ၣ်လီၤ

from “How Does the Toothpaste Get into the Tube?”

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