“iron” in Sgaw Karen
ထး
hṭä
iron
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“iron” is written ထး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hṭä. 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
အဝဲဟံးန့ၢ်ထံလူလီၤလၢတဲာ်တီသၣ်အပူၤ ဟံးန့ၢ်ထးဒီးလုၢ်ဆးတံၢ်က့ၤတဲာ်တီသၣ်ဒံးအလီၢ်လီၢ်လီၤfrom “ဖိးစံး ကၠိၤစံး ၈ဲၤတၢ်မၤကဒါမဲာ်”