“mine” in Sgaw Karen
ယတၢ်
ya ta
mine
“mine” is written ယတၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ya ta. 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
ခံးခံး ခံးခံး နံၤသီၣ်ခံးခး ယဖံဂဲၤယတၢ်လိၢ်ကွဲဒီတနံၤညါလီၤ!
Giggle, giggle, giggling away, Granny played, with my little toy. For the rest of the day!
from “Lost and Found” →ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တဘၣ်တၢ်နီတမံၤဘၣ် ပကလိၣ်ကွဲသကိးဒံးလၢယတၢ်မံမီၢ်အပူၤလီၤ
But I don't mind at all. We will play again in my dreams!
from “My Best Friend” →