“king” in Sgaw Karen

စီၤပၤ

saw̄ pā

king

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

“king” is written စီၤပၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as saw̄ pā. 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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ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိအစီၤပၤဟ့ၣ်လီၤအကလုၢ် ဖီၣ်ဃာ်ထီးတဒုန့ၣ်၀ံၤကွံာ်လီၤအီၤလၢတၢ်ဖီလာ် ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိအဂၤတဖၣ်ဖီၣ်ဃာ်ထီး၀ံၤကွံာ်လီၤ၀ဲဆူတၢ်ဖီလာ်လီၤ
"There are no pigs allowed here!" the king of the horned animals said. "No throw that pig out!"
from “No Pigs Allowed”
တဘျီဃီန့ၣ် ဆးပၠာ်အစီၤပၤဘၤတံးအိၣ်ဖျါထီၣ်အသး“ဘၤတံးဧၢ ပျံၤတၢ်တဂ့ၤ” အဝဲစံးဘၣ်အီၤ “လဲၤကနိဒီးတၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်” ဆးပၠာ်အစီၤပၤဟ့ၣ်လီၤအကလုၢ်လၢဆးပၠာ်သဘှဲအသုးမုၢ်သံၣ်ဘိအအိၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
Suddenly, Soap King Bubbly appears. "Bunty, don’t be afraid," he says. "Go attack the germs!" the Soap King orders his army of bubbles.
from “Bunty and Bubbly”

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