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“hole, gap” in Sgaw Karen

တၢ်ပူၤ

ta poō

hole, gap

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“hole, gap” is written တၢ်ပူၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta poō. 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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တဘၣ်နီတမံၤဘၣ် ပဲတြီမ့ၢ်ကးတံၢ်အသးနာ်က့ ယလဲၤနုာ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတဲၢ်ဖးဆံးကဲဖိသ့မီၣ်
Never mind if the door is shut. I can slip through the smallest crack.
from “Busy Ants”
မူခိၣ်စူၤဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ထုၤထုၤ အ့နဲသံၣ်တၢ်ဂၢၢ်ဒီးဘၣ်ကၠီၣ် အလဲၤကၠံၣ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတဆူ "ယကအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတုၤမူခိၣ်ယီၤ" အ့နဲသံၣ်တဲဒီးအကကၠၢ်"ဒ်လဲၣ်ဒ်လဲၣ်န့ၣ် ယကၠ့အိၣ်၀ဲလၢဘုခ့ချံဖၢလ၁်လၢယကျၢၢ်ဘၢပ၁်"
It started to rain even more heavily. Anansi became cold and wet, so he ran into a hole. "I will stay in this hole until the rain stops," said Anansi to himself. "At least my money is protected by the maize I put on top of it."
from “Anansi and Vulture”

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