“kid” in Sgaw Karen

ဖိသၣ်

hpoh thà

kid

Confirmed by a Karen speaker.

“kid” is written ဖိသၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpoh thà. 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

တၢ်ဖိသၣ်ဧၢ ပ၀ဲဲပနၢ်ဟူတၢ်ကလုၢ်လၢနတသ့ၣ်ညါဒၣ်လဲၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
Little one! We can hear sounds which you cannot imagine at all!
from “We Are All Animals”
မံမီၢ်တၢ်မုာ်မုာ် ဖိသၣ်ဆံး မ့ၢ်နကအိၣ်ခိးကွၢ်...
from “ဒူး—ဒူးသၢဒု”

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