“owl” in Sgaw Karen

ဒိကအိ

doh ga oh

owl

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“owl” is written ဒိကအိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as doh ga oh. 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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တၢ်မဲၥ်ချံကပီၤကွၢ်လီၤထံကူးလၢသ့ၣ်ခံ နမ့ၢ်မတၤလဲၣ် "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" ယမ့ၢ်ဒိကအိ ယဃုအီၣ်ဆၣ်လၢမုၢ်နၤခါ နအဲၣ်ဒီးကဲယသကိးစ့ၢ်ဧါ "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" အဲၣ်ဒီး အဲၣ်ဒီး"ဒိကအိစံးဆၢ"
Two shiny eyes looked at him from a tree. "Who are you?" asked Tinku. "I’m an owl," said the owl. "I hunt for food during the night." "Will you be my friend?" asked Tinku. "Yes, I will!" said the owl.
from “Goodnight, Tinku!”

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