“outside” in Sgaw Karen
အချၢ
a khluh
outside
“outside” is written အချၢ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as a khluh. 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
တုၢ်! ဆိထူခွ့လီၤလၢကိလူအချၢဃံ "ဝီးဧူၤ" ကိလူနံၤဝဲဒၣ်ဝံၤဒီးတဲဝဲ "ယၤဒီးနီၢ် နဲနဘၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ဒီးယကခွ့လီၤလၢနချၢဃံတထံၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီး"
Thump! Chhotu landed on Golu’s back. “Wow!” laughed Golu. “My turn now. You sit down and I will leap on your back.”
from “Playtime” →မီးတသ့ညါလၢကလဲၤဆူလဲၣ် မ့ၢ်လၣ်စးထီၣ်အူအိီၣ်အချၢ တဘျီဃီဒ့ၣ်သုဖိဆိကမိၣ်ထီၣ်ထံအိၣ်အလီၢ်ဖဲအထံၣ်ဘၣ်ခွံၢ် အ၀ဲသံတံၢ်အမဲာ်ချံဃံးဃံး ကီၤကသါဒီးတခွ့တၢ်ဖးထီဃဃာ်ဃီၤအသးဆူတၢ်လီၢ်လၢထံအိၣ်အလီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
With nowhere to run, the flames began to burn her back. Mod looked frantically for an escape. She spotted a small pond some distance away. It was her only hope. She closed her eyes and leapt as high and far as she could.
from “Mod the Toad” →