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“month” in Sgaw Karen

လါ

lah

month

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

“month” is written လါ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as lah. 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

ခဲအံၤကဲထီၣ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်ဖးဒိၣ် အလၢ်လါအိၣ်အါမးအဒ့ရၤလီၤအသးအိၣ်ဖျါလီၤတံၢ်လီီၤ
Now it's a big tree, leafy and green, Spreading it's branches so it can be seen.
from “The Big Juicy Apple”
ဒီးတၢ်တနၤန့ၣ် လါဖိဟဲကပီၤထီၣ် ဒီးလါဖိန့ၣ်ထံၣ်ဝဲယခိၣ်မီၣ် အိၣ်ထီဃာ်လၢချၢဒ့လိၤန့ၣ်လီၤ
Later that night, the moon came up. It looked at my cap on the old Pipal tree.
from “The Moon and the Cap”

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