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“if” in Sgaw Karen

မ့မ့ၢ်

may may

if

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

“if” is written မ့မ့ၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as may may. 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

ဆၢး မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်ဒီးကွၢ်လၢယနးဒ့ ယသူနးဒ့လၢကသါန့ၣ်ကလံၤ
Fine, but look at my nose. I breathe through my nose.
from “We Are All Animals”
အ၀ဲအံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်အသးလၢဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်အသ့ၣ်ဃ့ထီဒီးကိၣ်လိာ်တဘျ့ဘၣ်ဒီးအိၣ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢယံၤဒီးထံသ့ မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ့ၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးအဘ့ၣ်ဘျ့ဘၣ်စီးဒံး ဒီးကဘၣ်အိၣ်လၢတၢ်လီၢ် ဘၣ်စီးပှဲာ်ပှာ်ထီသိန့ၣ်လီၤ
This is why toads have dry rough skin, and can live away from water. Frogs still have smooth wet skin and need to stay where it's wet.
from “Mod the Toad”

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