“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” →