“therefore” in Sgaw Karen
လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိ
luh ta này a xoh
therefore
“therefore” is written လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as luh ta này a xoh. 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
လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိချိၢ်ပလ့ၤမၤနၢၤတၢ်ပြၢမ့ၢ်လၢအတၢ်ကူာ်သ့လီၤ
So the snail won the race because he was clever!
from “The Race” →ထီးလၢအလီၤသးကညီၤတဒု အ၀ဲလီၤတဲာ်အနးဒ့လီၤဘၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖျၢၣ် လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိအနးဒ့ဘံၣ်နာ်လီၤ
Poor pig! When he fell, he landed on his nose. And his nose was flattened into a snout.
from “No Pigs Allowed” →