“head” in Sgaw Karen
ခိၣ်
khoh̀
head
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“head” is written ခိၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as khoh̀. 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
တအိၣ်လၢလီၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤခိၣ်ဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢကၠုၣ်ဖီလၣ်ဘၣ်
Not on the sofa. Not under the cot.
from “Lost and Found” →ယထီၣ်ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤသ့လံ ၀ံၤအလီၢ်ခံ ထီၣ်လၢစဘွဲခိၣ်သ့လံ
I climb on to the chair, and then on the table!
from “I Can Climb!” →