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“how” in Sgaw Karen

ဒ်လဲၣ်

da lèh

how

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

“how” is written ဒ်လဲၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as da lèh. 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

"နၤနုၤ" "မ့ၢ်,ယၤအံၤလီၤ" "နကမၤဒ်လဲၣ်" ဆိထူသံကွၢ်ဝဲ
“You?” asked Chhotu. “Yes, me,” said Golu. “How can you do that?” asked Chhotu.
from “Playtime”
ဒ်လဲၣ်ခီလဲၣ် ပအိၣ်ဒီးမဲာ်ချံစ့ၢ်ကီး အါန့ၣ်အန့ၣ်ပထံၣ်တၢ်လၢမုၢ်နၤခီစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
So what? We have eyes too. And we can see in the dark!
from “We Are All Animals”

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