ကညီKnyaw
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“Karen” in Sgaw Karen

ကညီ

ga nyaw

Karen

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“Karen” is written ကညီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga nyaw. 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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တုၤပပာ်လီၤပသးလၢတၢ်ယူၤထံဘၣ်ကတၢၢ်၀ဲအံၤလီၤ ပထံၣ်ဘၣ်ညၢ်ကညီအီၣ်နီၢ်ပီာ်လဲၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးလီး
And just when we thought this dive couldn’t possibly get any better, we sighted a dugong grazing on some sea grass.
from “Dive!”
ခ့ယုၢ်ကညီ ဆွံၣ်မီၤတၢ် စိးဝၣ်ဃးကိးသဲဖးဒိၣ် ပှၤကညီတဲတၢ်သဲဖးဒိၣ် ပတဲအီၤလၢ "ကလုၢ်သဲဒိၣ်ဒ်သိးစိးဝၣ်ဃး"
A lion roars. A dog barks. Crows make a lot of noise. So when some people talk loudly we say, "As noisy as a crow".
from “Noisy Crows”

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