“rat” in Sgaw Karen
ယုၢ်
yu̱
rat
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“rat” is written ယုၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as yu̱. 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
"ပလီၢ်နသးစ့ၢ်ကၢ် နဘူးကတချးဘၣ်ယၤလံၤ"ယုၢ်မံခဲးထဲးထီၣ်၀ဲၤဖဲးအဒုးလုၢ်အဖိၤအထံအခါ လဲၤဂဲကလံလၢကၢ်ဃၢန့ၣ်
"Be careful! You nearly kicked me!" says Meerkat, bathing his babies. "Go dance somewhere else."
from “Hippo Wants to Dance” →နဟဲမံအိၣ်သကီးယၤသ့ ထွံၣ်ဖိတဲဘၣ်အီၤ တၢ်ဘျုးနီၤ ယုၢ်တဲဆၢအီၤ
from “A House for Mouse” →