“sound” in Sgaw Karen
တၢ်သီၣ်
ta thàw
sound
“sound” is written တၢ်သီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta thàw. 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
ဒီး, စီၤကါကး နၣ်ဟူတၢ်သီၣ်! ပး,ပး,ပး,! မ့ၢ်မတၤမၤသီၣ်တၢ်တဂၤလဲၣ် ဒါနိစါဧိဒံနိး! စီၤကါကးသူၣ်ခုသးခုဒိၣ်မး လၢထံၣ်ဘၣ် ဒံနိး
Kaka hears a sound! Dup, Dup, Dup! What makes this beat? It is Dinoo the dinosaur! Kaka is glad to see Dinoo.
from “Sing in the Rain” →