“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.
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ဆၢး မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်ဒီးကွၢ်လၢယနးဒ့ ယသူနးဒ့လၢကသါန့ၣ်ကလံၤအ၀ဲအံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်အသးလၢဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်အသ့ၣ်ဃ့ထီဒီးကိၣ်လိာ်တဘျ့ဘၣ်ဒီးအိၣ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢယံၤဒီးထံသ့ မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ့ၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးအဘ့ၣ်ဘျ့ဘၣ်စီးဒံး ဒီးကဘၣ်အိၣ်လၢတၢ်လီၢ် ဘၣ်စီးပှဲာ်ပှာ်ထီသိန့ၣ်လီၤ