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“really, truly” in Sgaw Karen

နီၢ်နီၢ်

naw naw

really, truly

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“really, truly” is written နီၢ်နီၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as naw naw. 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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ပ၀ဲပခိၣ်သူဂ့ၤစ့ၢ်ကီးမ့ၢ်မၤနီၢ်နီၢ်န့ၣ်ပသံၣ်ပခိၣ်သူသ့လီၤ
Uh! Our hair is pretty too. We could plait it if we wanted to. Maybe!
from “We Are All Animals”
#2 တၢ်နီၢ်နီၢ်န့ၣ် ဖီတဖီးအံၤမ့ၢ်ဖီတဖီးလၢအလီၤဆီလၢအဖီၣ်အီၣ်တၢ်ဖိဃၢ် ကနဲကျဲးစၢၤဃ့ၢ်ယူၤကွံာ်ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အဂံၢ်ဘါစၢ်လီၤ ဒီးအဒံးဆ့ဘၣ်စီာ် ဒီးအမဲာ်ချံဆံးလီၤ ဆံးလီၤ ဒီးမံဘၣ်အသးန့ၣ်လီၤ
Sophy flies right into the flower's golden heart and takes a sip of the nectar. But it is bitter and makes her feel dizzy. She tries to fly away, but quickly runs out of energy. Her wings become weak and her eyes begin to close.
from “Big-Eyed Bee”

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