“this (thing)” in Sgaw Karen
တၢ်အံၤ
ta ēe
this (thing)
“this (thing)” is written တၢ်အံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta ēe. 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
စံးဒ် စံံးဒ် တၢ်အံၤမတၤလဲၣ် "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" ယမ့ၢ်သကံၤ "သကံၤစံးဆၢ" ယကိးသီၣ်ဖဲမုၢ်လီၤနုၥ် နအဲၣ်ဒီးကဲယသကီးစ့ၢ်ဧါ "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" န့ၢ်သၢၣ် "သကံၤစံးဆၢ"
"CHIRRRRRP! CHIRRRRRP!" "Who is here?" Tinku asked. "I’m a cricket," said the cricket. "I chirp when it is dark." "Will you be my friend?" asked Tinku. "Yes, I will!" said the cricket.
from “Goodnight, Tinku!” →စိဖံယူၤကပာ်သ့ၣ်ဒ့လၢအဘျးလိာ်အသး ဘၣ်တဒ့ဒ့န့ၣ်က့ၣ်နုာ်ဒီးဘၣ်တဒ့ဒ့က့ၣ်ထီၣ် အဝဲလဲၤယူၤနုာ်လၢသ့ၣ်လၣ်တူၣ်ဖျိလၢသူမူၢ် ပီအီၣ်အီၤ ဒီးအဝဲဘၣ်တိးဒီးထံလၢသ့ၣ်လၢ်လိၤ "အၣ်ဟး တၢ်အံၤဂ့ၤဒိၣ်မးလဲၣ်!"
Sophy flies up through the branches. Sometimes she takes a shortcut through holes in the leaves eaten by worms. She doesn't pay much attention to where she is going.
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →