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“mother” in Sgaw Karen

မိၢ်

moẖ

mother

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

“mother” is written မိၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as moẖ. 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.

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This word in a story

မ့ၢ်ဝဲဒၣ်ယမိၢ်လီၤ.

My mother!!!

from “My Friends”

ယမိၢ်ဒူယၤ ဖဲယဟဲစိာ်တၢ်အီၣ်လၢကရၢၢ်ပူၤ

Ma shouts at me, when I bring some tasty food from the garden.

from “Clean Cat”

More Family words

ခံနဲbrother-in-lawတခွါcousinတၢ်တ့တၢ်ဖျီwedding, marriageဒ့မုၣ်little sisterဒီတခွါa cousin (men)ဒီတခွါမုၣ်cousin (female)ဒီဒိၣ်in-laws (the two sets of parents)ဒီပုၢ်ဝဲၢ်sibling, brothers and sisters