“thin” in Sgaw Karen
ဃဲၤ
xeh̄
thin
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“thin” is written ဃဲၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as xeh̄. 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
ယမံၤလၢလိလိၣ် ယအိၣ်ဒီးယတံၤသကိးအါမး ဟဲထီၣ်ဒီးယၤ ဟဲတဲဃဲၤသကိးတၢ်!from “Hello”ဆိနၤသံကွၢ်ဝဲ “ဘၣ်မနုၤလၢအဝဲၢ်တဖၣ်နီၢ်ဒိၣ်လဲၣ်?” နအဲၣ်ဒိးဒိကနၣ်တၢ်ဃဲပူဧါ?” အပၢ်စံးဘၣ်အီၤ “ယအဲၣ်ဒီးဒိကနၣ်”ဆိနၤတဲဝဲ “ယအဲၣ်ဒိးဒိကနၣ်တၢ်ဃဲၤပူလၢအဂၤတယုၢ် မ့ၢ်လၢတၢ်ဃဲပူတယုၢ်အံၤယဒိကနၣ်ဘၣ်လံ”from “The Storybook Princess”