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“maize” in Sgaw Karen

ဘုခ့

bu khay

maize

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

“maize” is written ဘုခ့ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as bu khay. 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

အ့နဲသံၣ်မၤန့ၢ်တၢ်ဒိးတၢ်လၣ် တၢ်သူၣ်တၢ်သၣ်လဲၤဆါလၢက၁်ပူၤ အန့ၢ်ဘၣ်ကၠ့အါမးတုၤအဘၣ်ဆွံနု၁်၀ဲလၢသိၣ်ဃၤဖးဒိၣ်ပူၤ အမၤန့ၢ်ကၠ့တနီၤလဲၤပှ့ၤန့ၢ်ဘုခ့ချံဟ့ၣ်အဒူၣ်ဖိထၢဖိ ဒီးအဆွံနုၥ်တံၢ်ဒီးကၠ့လၢသိၣ်ဃၤပူၤ
Anansi went to the market to sell the fruit and vegetables Rabbit had grown. He made so much money that he filled a big basket with it! With some of the money, he bought maize for his family, and put it on top of the money in the basket.
from “Anansi and Vulture”

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