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“prison” in Sgaw Karen

ဃိာ်

xoḥ

prison

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

“prison” is written ဃိာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as xoḥ. 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

အဝဲအဲၣ်တၢ်အူးထီၣ်ဃိာ်မဲးစ့ၢ်ကီး
She also likes to make sand castles.
from “Bunty and Bubbly”
ထူမံးထံၣ်မဲးအလီၢ် ထူမံးစံးဝဲ"ပကဟဲအူးထီၣ်သကိးဃိာ်မဲး!"
from “ထူမံးလဲၤလၢတၢ်ဟးကသုၣ်အလီၢ်”

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