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“lead (metal)” in Sgaw Karen

စၢၢ်

suẖ

lead (metal)

“lead (metal)” is written စၢၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as suẖ. 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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ကနၢ်လၢအံၤ ယနၢ်ဟူတၢ်သ့ယံၤစၢၢ်တလၢၢ် ခီဖျိလၢယနၢ်ခံပၤ

Yes, but listen! I can hear a lot with my ears!

from “We Are All Animals”

ယထီၣ်သ့ၣ်သ့ ယဖုသ့ ဒီးယသ့ၣ်ညါကျဲစၢၢ်လိဖဲအံၤခဲလၢာ်န့ၣ်လီၤ

I can climb trees. I can jump. I know all the short cuts here.

from “Clean Cat”

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