“island” in Sgaw Karen

ကီး

kaẅ

island

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

“island” is written ကီး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kaẅ. 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

ပှၤဒီသကီးသၢဂၤဒီးလိးတီငါက့ၤဆူဟံၣ်
The three friends went home in a taxi.
from “Goat, Dog, Cow, and TV”
ပါပၢ်ဧၢ ပါပၢ် ယကီးဖှး ယပၢ်နံၤ စိၤနူး မၤလိနသးလၢက့ၤလီၤဒံးအသ့ ယပၢ်တဲ၀ဲ
"Papa! Papa!" I shout. Papa laughs. "Sonu, learn to climb down!" he says.
from “I Can Climb!”

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