“louse” in Sgaw Karen
ဃၢ်
xa̱
louse
“louse” is written ဃၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as xa̱. 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
ကဆီထံဒီးဒွဲာ်စးထီၣ်ဂဲကလံၢ် ဒီးတၢ်ဖိဃၢ်ကၢ်ဃၢတဖၣ်ကွၢ်၀ဲၤလီၤ
Hippo and Grasshopper start to dance, and the other animals come to look …
from “Hippo Wants to Dance” →အုမ်... ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒီးတနံၤအံၤနတီၤ ကလဲၤဟးလိာ်ကွဲကွၢ်ကီတၢ် လၢတၢ်ဖိဃၢ်အလီၢ်!
Hmm... But, today's your class picnic at the zoo!
from “Do and don't” →