“maybe” in Sgaw Karen
ဘၣ်တဘၣ်
bà ta bà
maybe
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“maybe” is written ဘၣ်တဘၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as bà ta bà. 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
ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တထံၣ်ကိကိးအခီၣ်လီၢ်ဘၣ် တိတိး ဟ်လီၤအသးယူၤလီၤလၤထံပူၤ ဘၣ်တဘၣ်ကိကိး ကကီၤကသါဒီးအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢထံကျါဘၣ်တဘၣ် တဘျီဘျီန့ၣ် နကထံၣ်ဘၣ်ဒူး-ဒူး လၢအလီၤအဲၣ်သၢဒုလၢာ် ကခွ့ကပာ်နၤဒူး-ဒူး-ဒူး လၢအခီၣ်ထဲတပၤဧိၤန့ၣ်လီၤfrom “ဒူး—ဒူးသၢဒု”