“sheep” in Sgaw Karen

သိ

thoh

sheep

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

“sheep” is written သိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thoh. 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

ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖၣ် ရဲၣ်လီၤအသး လၢသ့ၣ်ထူလီၢ်ခံဖဲတၢ်ပြၢအကျိၤ ဒ်သိဖဲပဒဲဟဲတုၤတဘျီလၢ်လၢ် ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖၣ် ကကီးဖှးထီၣ် ယၤယမ့ၢ်ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ ဖဲတၢ်ပြၢအခါ ပဒဲကီးထီၣ် ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤဧၢ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤဧၢ
Snails lined up behind trees on the racing track so that each time the rabbit passed, a snail would shout, ‘I am the snail…’ During the race, the rabbit called out, "Snail! Snail!"
from “The Race”
အ၀ဲအံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်အသးလၢဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်အသ့ၣ်ဃ့ထီဒီးကိၣ်လိာ်တဘျ့ဘၣ်ဒီးအိၣ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢယံၤဒီးထံသ့ မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ့ၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးအဘ့ၣ်ဘျ့ဘၣ်စီးဒံး ဒီးကဘၣ်အိၣ်လၢတၢ်လီၢ် ဘၣ်စီးပှဲာ်ပှာ်ထီသိန့ၣ်လီၤ
This is why toads have dry rough skin, and can live away from water. Frogs still have smooth wet skin and need to stay where it's wet.
from “Mod the Toad”

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