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“name” in Sgaw Karen

အမံၤ

a mēe

name

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

“name” is written အမံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as a mēe. 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

"ယိ-ယိး န့ၣ် အမံၤလီၤနံၤဒိၣ်မး! ပ၈ဲၤလိၢ်ကွဲဲအီၤမုာ်ဒိၣ်မးန့ၣ်လီၤ!
"Yo-yo? What a funny name! What a funny toy! I want to play with it, It gives me so much joy!"
from “Lost and Found”
"နမၤခုၢ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဘၣ်ယၤနီၤ" စံး၀ီာ်ဒ့လၢအမံၤနီၤလၢမဲးခိၣ်တဲး၀ဲၤ "လဲၤဂဲၤကလံၢ်လၢကၢ်လီၢ်ကၢ်ဃၢၤန့ၢ်"
"You’re getting dirt on me!" says Shongololo, sleeping in the sand. "Go dance somewhere else."
from “Hippo Wants to Dance”

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