“jump” in Sgaw Karen

စံၣ်

sèe

jump

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

“jump” is written စံၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as sèe. 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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ကိလူပျံၤဝဲဒီးစံၣ်ကွံာ်ဝဲ အခီၣ်ဘီၣ်လဲၤတူာ်လူာ်ဆူဘးန့ၣ်
Golu ran away scared.
from “Playtime”
ဘၤတံး တၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဃိၢ်လူၤအီၤ အဝဲစံၣ်ဃ့ၢ်လၢာ်သးဒီးကိးပသူထီၣ် “မၤစၢၤ… မၤစၢၤ!”
Bunty is chased by the germs. She runs for her life and screams, "Help… Help!"
from “Bunty and Bubbly”

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