“lightning” in Sgaw Karen
လီဝၢ်
law wa
lightning
“lightning” is written လီဝၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as law wa. 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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အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤလီဝၢ်ဒံး လၢအိၣ်လၢလီၢ်ထီၣ်ထီ နဝၢ်နဒံးကပီၤဆူၣ်မး နမ့ၢ်ပှၤမၤပျံၤပှၤ အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤလီသီၣ် ကညီၤထီၣ်လၢမူခိၣ်ထံကျါ နသီၣ်သထြုးလၢတၢ်လီၢ်ကိးတီၤဒဲး
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