“only” in Sgaw Karen
ထဲ
hteh
only
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“only” is written ထဲ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hteh. 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
ဘၣ်မနၤလၢတထံၣ်ဘၣ်လဲၣ် သုစုမ့ၢ်ခီၣ်မ့ၢ်သ့ဒၣ်ထဲခူၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဘၣ်အၢလ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ထဲတထံၣ် ဆၢကပုာ်လုာ်ဒီးချံၣ် လ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ထဲတထံၣ်ယထူပျ့ၤထံလီၤလီၤ