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“leaf” in Sgaw Karen

လၣ်

là

leaf

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

“leaf” is written လၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as là. 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

တအိၣ်လၢလီၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤခိၣ်ဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢကၠုၣ်ဖီလၣ်ဘၣ်
Not on the sofa. Not under the cot.
from “Lost and Found”
ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်လၢဟံၣ်ပူၤမ့ၢ်ဝဲယဂီၢ် မ့ၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢပှၤဟုလၣ်န့ၣ်ဂ့ၤတက့ၢ်ဧါ?
The best chair in the house is for me. But sitting on the lap is even better, isn’t it?
from “Clean Cat”

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