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“spear” in Sgaw Karen

ဘီ

baw

spear

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

“spear” is written ဘီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as baw. 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

တခီးသၣ်မံဂီၤကပုာ်လုးဖျါလီၤအီၣ် အသၣ်ကိပူၤအလွဲၢ်ဘီကပြုၢ်
This juicy, red apple looks delicious and fresh, Inside of the skin is bright yellow flesh.
from “The Big Juicy Apple”
တဘျီဃီ ဖဲပအိၣ်လၢထံဖီလာ် ပဒိးန့ၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်တူၢ်လိာ်ပှၤလၢညၢ်မူရိၤဘီတဒူၣ်
As soon as we were underwater, we were greeted by a school of yellowback fusiliers.
from “Dive!”

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