“night” in Sgaw Karen

မုၢ်နၤ

mu nā

night

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“night” is written မုၢ်နၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mu nā. 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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ဘၣ်တဘျီဘျီယတံၤသကိး ကိးလူကိးဖှးလၢမုၢ်နၤခါ ဖဲန့ၣ်အဆၢကတီၢ်ယမံယဲဘှ့ၣ်ဘှ့ၣ်ဘှီၣ်ဘှီၣ်လီၤ
My friends sometimes make a lot of noise at night. By then I am quietly in bed.
from “Clean Cat”
ထံကူးပ၁်လီၤသးလဲၤထီၣ်ကွၢ်ကီတၢ်ဆူအံၤဆူနုၤ ကွၢ်ထီၣ်တၢ်မူကပိာ်လိၤ ထံကူးထံၣ်လါက၀ီၤဖးဒိၣ် ကပီၤဖျါဆှံမး ဆှၢန့ၣ်အီၤတၢ်နံၤကမှံမၤမု၁်အသးဒိၣ်မး မုၢ်နၤခါအံၤဃံလၤမးလီၤ ထံကူးဆိမိၣ်၀ဲလၢအသးပူၤ
So he set off into the night to see what he could find. Up in the sky, Tinku saw the moon, white and round, smiling down at him. He felt very happy. ‘Night is beautiful,’ thought Tinku.
from “Goodnight, Tinku!”

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