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“rabbit” in Sgaw Karen

ပဒဲ

pa deh

rabbit

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“rabbit” is written ပဒဲ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as pa deh. 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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ကဆီထံတထံၣ်လၢပဒဲအိၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်ဘၢ် လၢတၢ်တပာ်သးဘၣ်အ၀ဲယီၢ်ဘၣ်ပဒဲအခီၣ် ပဒဲကီးဃး ကဆီထံ ကဆီီထံ နတထံၣ်နုၤ နယီၢ်ဘၣ်ယခီၣ်အံၤ
Hippo didn’t see that Rabbit was there and she accidentally stepped on Rabbit’s foot. Rabbit started screaming at Hippo, "You Hippo! Can’t you see that you’re stepping on my foot?"
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair”
ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤဆှၢလီၤကၠးခိတဖၣ်ဆူအသကီးအအိၣ်ဒီးတဲဘၣ်အ၀ဲသ့ၣ် ဖဲပဒဲဟဲကီးယၤပ၀ဲတဖၣ်တဖျၢၣ်လၢ်လၢ်ကဘၣ်တဲဘၣ်အီၤ ယၤယမ့ၢ်ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ
The snail handed out the pieces of paper to his friends and said, "When the rabbit comes here calling me, one of you must say: I am the snail."
from “The Race”

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