“talk” in Sgaw Karen

ကတိၤတၢ်

ga tōh ta

talk

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

“talk” is written ကတိၤတၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga tōh ta. 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

ဖဲယကတိၤတၢ်ဒီးအီၤ အဝဲကတိၤတၢ်ဒီးယၤ
When I talk to her, she also talks to me.
from “My Best Friend”
ဖဲခွံၢ်ကတိၤတၢ်အခါ အက့ၢ်အဂီၤလဲလိာ်အလွဲၢ် မီးဖုးဘၣ်အသးပျံၤတၢ် အ၀ဲဃ့လီၤဖးချ့ချ့ ဒီးတခွ့ ဃီၤဆူသ့ၣ်ကဒၢအပူၤလၢအိၣ်သူၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်လီၤ
But suddenly, the chameleon's body changed color! Mod had never seen anything like it. She was frightened and hopped away as quickly as she could.
from “Mod the Toad”

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