“room” in Sgaw Karen
ဒၢး
duḧ
room
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“room” is written ဒၢး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as duḧ. 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
ယဃုလၢယဒၢးပူၤကိးဆူးဒဲး ယဃုအိးထီၣ်ယလံာ်ကိးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲး
I have looked in every room, l have looked under every book.
from “Lost and Found” →ညၢ်ကၤတူၤတဖၣ်အံၤကသုပယာ်ပီာ်လဲၣ်ဖီအဒၢးလၢတၢ်ပလီၢ်ပဒီ သနာ်က့အ၀ဲပျဲယၤ လၢကမၤန့ၣ်တၢ်ဂီၤတစဲးလီၤ
These clownfish carefully guarded their sea anemone home, but finally agreed to let me take a few pictures.
from “Dive!” →