“no, it is not” in Sgaw Karen
တမ့ၢ်ဘၣ်
ta may bà
no, it is not
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“no, it is not” is written တမ့ၢ်ဘၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta may bà. 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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တမ့ၢ်ဘၣ် မ့ၢ်ဝဲတၢ်တမံၤမံၤ လၢအအိၣ်ဒီးအဆူၣ်ကဖူၣ်၈့ၤန့ၢ်ဒံးသၣ်မံညီ, လီၤအဲၣ်ဒိၣ်န့ၢ်ဒံးယုၢ်, ဒီးအမိၢ်ပှၢ် ဆံးန့ၢ် နၤဒီးယၤfrom “ဒူး—ဒူးသၢဒု”