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“older sibling” in Sgaw Karen

ဝဲၢ်

weẖ

older sibling

“older sibling” is written ဝဲၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as weẖ. 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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ဆိနၤသံကွၢ်ဝဲ “ဘၣ်မနုၤလၢအဝဲၢ်တဖၣ်နီၢ်ဒိၣ်လဲၣ်?” နအဲၣ်ဒိးဒိကနၣ်တၢ်ဃဲပူဧါ?” အပၢ်စံးဘၣ်အီၤ “ယအဲၣ်ဒီးဒိကနၣ်”ဆိနၤတဲဝဲ “ယအဲၣ်ဒိးဒိကနၣ်တၢ်ဃဲၤပူလၢအဂၤတယုၢ် မ့ၢ်လၢတၢ်ဃဲပူတယုၢ်အံၤယဒိကနၣ်ဘၣ်လံ”

from “The Storybook Princess”

More Family words

ခံနဲbrother-in-lawတခွါcousinတၢ်တ့တၢ်ဖျီwedding, marriageဒ့မုၣ်little sisterဒီတခွါa cousin (men)ဒီတခွါမုၣ်cousin (female)ဒီဒိၣ်in-laws (the two sets of parents)ဒီပုၢ်ဝဲၢ်sibling, brothers and sisters