“perch” in Sgaw Karen
စီၢ်လီၤ
saw lāw
perch
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“perch” is written စီၢ်လီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as saw lāw. 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
ထီၣ်ဖှံးဖိတဘျးအဒံးဆ့ဒီးယူၤ နလဲၤချ့နးလဲၣ် ချံးကိးအီၤ မ့ၢ် ယကစံၣ်တကျဲၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီၤချံၤဟးဃုာ်ဒီးချီၣ်ပလ့ၤဒီးထိၣ်ဖှံးဖိစီၢ်လီၤလၢအကုလိၤ အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်ဃုဒီးဃု ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒၢးအတၢ်ပနီၢ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ်from “Tortoise Finds His Home”