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“there” in Sgaw Karen

ဖဲန့ၣ်

hpeh này

there

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

“there” is written ဖဲန့ၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpeh này. 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

စးထီၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်ထီးအနးဒ့ဘံၣ်နာ်လီၤ
Ever since then, the pig has had a flat snout for a nose. And still, no horns.
from “No Pigs Allowed”
ကဆီထံအိၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဖဲန့ၣ် ဟးလိၣ်ကွဲးဒီးအီၣ်နီၢ်လါဟ့လီၤ
Hippo was there too, going for a stroll and eating some nice green grass.
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair”

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