“leaf” in Sgaw Karen
သ့ၣ်လၣ်
thày là
leaf
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“leaf” is written သ့ၣ်လၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thày 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.
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စိဖံယူၤကပာ်သ့ၣ်ဒ့လၢအဘျးလိာ်အသး ဘၣ်တဒ့ဒ့န့ၣ်က့ၣ်နုာ်ဒီးဘၣ်တဒ့ဒ့က့ၣ်ထီၣ် အဝဲလဲၤယူၤနုာ်လၢသ့ၣ်လၣ်တူၣ်ဖျိလၢသူမူၢ် ပီအီၣ်အီၤ ဒီးအဝဲဘၣ်တိးဒီးထံလၢသ့ၣ်လၢ်လိၤ "အၣ်ဟး တၢ်အံၤဂ့ၤဒိၣ်မးလဲၣ်!"ယအဲၣ်ဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်ထံထဲးတဖျၢၣ်ဖိ ထဲးဒၣ်အဟဲၤလီၤစီၤလၢသ့ၣ်လၣ်လိၤသနာ်က့from “How Ant Saved Dove”