“quickly” in Sgaw Karen
ချ့ချ့
khlay khlay
quickly
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“quickly” is written ချ့ချ့ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as khlay khlay. 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
ဖဲခွံၢ်ကတိၤတၢ်အခါ အက့ၢ်အဂီၤလဲလိာ်အလွဲၢ် မီးဖုးဘၣ်အသးပျံၤတၢ် အ၀ဲဃ့လီၤဖးချ့ချ့ ဒီးတခွ့ ဃီၤဆူသ့ၣ်ကဒၢအပူၤလၢအိၣ်သူၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်လီၤ"၀့ထီၣ်ချ့ချ့" ထိၣ်လွံၢ်၀ါထဲ၀ဲ ဖဲလၢအအ့ာ်ဃာ်သ့ဒ့လၢအနီာ်လိfrom “How Ant Saved Dove”