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“round, circular” in Sgaw Karen

ကဝီၤ

ga wāw

round, circular

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

“round, circular” is written ကဝီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga wāw. 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

ကဆီထံတၢ်မိၢ်ဂဲကလံၢ် အ၀ဲဒၣ်ခွ့လီၤလၢနိၢ်ပူၤ ဒီးကရံးအဟုးဖၢဖးဒိၣ်က၀ီၤက၀ီၤ သခွံး သခွံး
Hippo wants to dance. She flops into a puddle of mud and slides around on her nice big belly. Squish! Squash!
from “Hippo Wants to Dance”
"နအဲၣ်ဒီးဂဲၤလိၢ်ကွဲဒီးယၤဧါ? မ့ၢ်တၢ်လၢအမုာ်ဒိၣ်မး!" ကပီၤမိၢ်ပှၢ်တဲအီၤ ဒီးကနဲမိၢ်ပှၢ်ဆှၣ်တၢ်ကဝီၤကဝီၤ စိဖံအဲၣ်ဒိးဂဲၤစ့ၢ်ကီး စိဖံယူၤဃီဆူကပီၤလုၤအအိၣ်
"This is my web. It can be a very exciting place. Do you want to come play with me?" Sophie is intrigued, so she flies toward the web.
from “Big-Eyed Bee”

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