“son” in Sgaw Karen

ဖိခွါ

hpoh kwah

son

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

“son” is written ဖိခွါ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpoh kwah. 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

“ဖိခွါဧၢနအဲၣ်ဒိးမၤတံာ်တာ်ပၢ်ဒ်ဧါ” အပၢ်သံကွၢ်အီၤ “ယတမၤတံာ်တာ်လၢဘၣ် ယအၢၣ်လီၤ”
from “The Storybook Princess”
"ယကမၤစၢၤနၤဧါ" စဲမ် သံကွၢ် "ယမၤစၢၤပှၤသ့" "ဖိခွါဧၢ နဆံးဒံး" မိၢ်တဲ "သပၢၤကလီၤကျၢၢ်ဘၣ်နၤ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်နဟံးန့ၢ်မိၢ်သ့မီၤ"
from “What's In the Pot?”

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