“six” in Sgaw Karen

ဃု

xu

six

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

“six” is written ဃု in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as xu. 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

ယဃုလၢယဒၢးပူၤကိးဆူးဒဲး ယဃုအိးထီၣ်ယလံာ်ကိးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲး
I have looked in every room, l have looked under every book.
from “Lost and Found”
ယကၠီၢ်လီၤလၢသ့ၣ်ခံ ဒီးကွၢ်တၢ်ဝးတ၇ံးဃုအီၣ်ဆၣ်လၢအဝံၣ်အဘဲ
I sit on the tree and look around for some tasty bits of food.
from “Noisy Crows”

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