“shield” in Sgaw Karen

ကတီၤ

ga tāw

shield

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“shield” is written ကတီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga tāw. 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.

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ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤကတီၤပာ်ကၠးခိအဘ့ၣ်တကယၤဒီးကွဲးတၢ်ကတိၤတထံၣ်လီၤဂာ်လီာ်သးလၢကၠးခိလိၤကီးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲးလီၤ
The snail prepared a hundred pieces of paper and wrote the same message on them.
from “The Race”
အဒ့ဂံၢ်ဘါဆူၣ် ကိၤမးဒီးဂၢၢ်ကျၢၤ၀ဲ သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်ကဘၣ်သၣ်ထီၣ်လံ အဒ့အိၣ်ကတီၤအသးလၢကသၣ်ထီၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
The branches are strong now, sturdy and steady, The tree needs some fruit now. The branches are ready.
from “The Big Juicy Apple”

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