“leg” in Sgaw Karen

ခီၣ်

khaẁ

leg

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

“leg” is written ခီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as khaẁ. 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

တနီၤအခီၣ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ်
Some of my friends have no feet.
from “My Friends”
လၢယခီၣ် ယဟး ယဃ့ၢ်ဒီးဂဲၤကလံာ်သ့စ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
And I can walk, run and even dance with my feet.
from “We Are All Animals”

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