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“person” in Sgaw Karen

ပှၤ

phgā

person

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“person” is written ပှၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as phgā. 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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တနီၤန့ၣ်မ့ၤပှၤသးပှၢ်

Some of my friends are old.

from “My Friends”

ပှၤဒီသကီးသၢဂၤဒီးလိးတီငါက့ၤဆူဟံၣ်

The three friends went home in a taxi.

from “Goat, Dog, Cow, and TV”

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