ကညီKnyaw
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“honeybee” in Sgaw Karen

ကနဲ

ga neh

honeybee

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

“honeybee” is written ကနဲ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga neh. 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

စးထီၣ်လၢဖီဖးထီၣ် ဝံၤကနဲကဟဲဖီးလီာ်အီၤ ကနဲဟဲ၀ံၤအလီၢ်ခံသ့ၣ်ကကၠးထီၣ်သၣ်လီၤ
The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.
from “The Big Juicy Apple”
မုၢ်ဆ့ၣ်ထီၣ်ထီးဆီကမိၣ်တၢ်ထီၣ် အ၀ဲဖှူကနဲဃီးလၢတၢ်နၢၤအလိၤဒ်သိးကထီထီၣ်တၢ်နၢၤလၢအခိၣ်လိၤ
The next day, he had an idea. He stuck some horns to his head with beeswax!
from “No Pigs Allowed”

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