“song” in Sgaw Karen

တၢ်သးဝံၣ်

ta thä wèe

song

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

“song” is written တၢ်သးဝံၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta thä wèe. 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

လဲၤဝဲ, ဒီးသးဝံၣ်တၢ်, ဒီးအတၢ်သးဝံၣ်န့ၣ် မ့ၢ်ဝဲ, “တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိ ဟဲအိၣ်ယၤတက့ၢ်”
He walks. He sings. His song is: Come to me, clouds!
from “Sing in the Rain”
အ့နဲသံၣ်က့ၤလၢအဒၢးပှဲၤဒီးတၢ်သးမု၁် အဒီထီၣ်သိၣ်ဃၤဒီးကိးတၢ်သး၀ံၣ် အဆိမိၣ်ထီၣ်တၢ်တမံၤဒီးတမံၤလၢအကမၤန့ၢ်အကၠ့ပှ့ၤ
Anansi happily headed home with his basket on his head. He sang as he thought about all the things he was going to buy.
from “Anansi and Vulture”

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