“stone” in Sgaw Karen
လၢၢ်
luẖ
stone
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“stone” is written လၢၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as luẖ. 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
ကနၢ်လၢအံၤ ယနၢ်ဟူတၢ်သ့ယံၤစၢၢ်တလၢၢ် ခီဖျိလၢယနၢ်ခံပၤ
Yes, but listen! I can hear a lot with my ears!
from “We Are All Animals” →ညၢ်ကျီၢ်ဒီးပီၤဒီးပီာ်လဲၣ်ပထံၣ်တုၤလၢညၢ် ဂီၤအလွဲၢ်လါဟ့တဖျၢၣ်ဖိ ဒီးပျၤမုာ်ဒီးသကး လိၢ်ကွဲ အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လိာ်သးဒီးလၢၢ်ဒိီလူၢ်ဒီဂ့ၢ်အိၣ်လီၤလၢလၢထံကျါ
There were triggerfish and sea urchins. We even saw a coral grouper and a reef octopus playing hide-and-seek.
from “Dive!” →