“night” in Sgaw Karen
မုၢ်နၤခီ
mu nā khaw
night
“night” is written မုၢ်နၤခီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mu nā khaw. 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
ဒ်လဲၣ်ခီလဲၣ် ပအိၣ်ဒီးမဲာ်ချံစ့ၢ်ကီး အါန့ၣ်အန့ၣ်ပထံၣ်တၢ်လၢမုၢ်နၤခီစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
So what? We have eyes too. And we can see in the dark!
from “We Are All Animals” →