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“side” in Sgaw Karen

ခီ

khaw

side

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

“side” is written ခီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as khaw. 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

ယဟီၣ်ရး ယအီၣ်မ့ၤဟါခီတဝံၣ်လၢဘၣ်
I cried a lot. And I did not eat my dinner.
from “The Moon and the Cap”
ဒ်လဲၣ်ခီလဲၣ် ပအိၣ်ဒီးမဲာ်ချံစ့ၢ်ကီး အါန့ၣ်အန့ၣ်ပထံၣ်တၢ်လၢမုၢ်နၤခီစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
So what? We have eyes too. And we can see in the dark!
from “We Are All Animals”

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