“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” →