“slowly” in Sgaw Karen
ကယီကယီ
ga yaw ga yaw
slowly
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“slowly” is written ကယီကယီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga yaw ga yaw. 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
ယက့ၤလီၤကယီကယီလၢစဘွဲ ဒီးခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအလိၤစ့ၣ်, ထွဲ, စ့ၣ်, ထွဲ, ပကဟးကယီကယီ သဲတဂ့ၤ