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“rice (husked, uncooked)” in Sgaw Karen

ဟု

hu

rice (husked, uncooked)

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

“rice (husked, uncooked)” is written ဟု in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hu. 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

ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်လၢဟံၣ်ပူၤမ့ၢ်ဝဲယဂီၢ် မ့ၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢပှၤဟုလၣ်န့ၣ်ဂ့ၤတက့ၢ်ဧါ?
The best chair in the house is for me. But sitting on the lap is even better, isn’t it?
from “Clean Cat”
အအံၤမ့ၢ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ် သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်အိၣ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်လိၤ အဂံၢ်အိၣ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ပူၤ ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖီးဟုဃာ်အဂံၢ် ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ထီၣ်သကုၤ နီၢ်လါဟ့ထီၣ်သကုၤ
Here is a tree. The tree is on the ground. Its roots are in the soil. Soil covers the roots. And green grass grows all around. And green grass grows all around.
from “The Tree”

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