“shell” in Sgaw Karen
ကု
ku
shell
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“shell” is written ကု in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ku. 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
ဟၢအၢ တထံၣ်ဘၣ် ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယကဃုစၢၤသု ထိၣ်မုၢ်နၤစံၣ်တကျဲၣ်ထီၣ်လၢချံးကုလီၤ ချံးဟးဃုာ် ဒီးချိၣ်ပလ့ၤဒီးထိၣ်မုၢ်နၤအိၣ်လၢအကုလိၤ အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်ဃုဒီးဃုဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒၢးအတၢ်ပနီၢ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ်ကလံၤဖိနဲစးထီၣ်အူfrom “Tortoise Finds His Home”