“no, it is not” in Sgaw Karen
တမ့ၢ်ဘၣ်
ta may bà
no, it is not
“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.
This word in a story
တမ့ၢ်ဘၣ် မ့ၢ်ဝဲတၢ်တမံၤမံၤ လၢအအိၣ်ဒီးအဆူၣ်ကဖူၣ်၈့ၤန့ၢ်ဒံးသၣ်မံညီ, လီၤအဲၣ်ဒိၣ်န့ၢ်ဒံးယုၢ်, ဒီးအမိၢ်ပှၢ် ဆံးန့ၢ် နၤဒီးယၤ
from “ဒူး—ဒူးသၢဒု” →"ခဲအံၤဟံးန့ၢ်မိၢ်အသကီၤဆံၣ်ခံဖျၢၣ်သၢဖျၢၣ်" "တမ့ၢ်ဘၣ် အအံၤအကဲအဲးပၢး (แอบเปิ้ล) သကီၤဆံၣ်အသၣ်ပိာ်လိာ် ဒီးအလွဲၢ်ဂီၤ" "အအိၣ်လၢထံချံၣ်ဒၢ (ตู้เย็น) အပူၤ"
from “What's In the Pot?” →