“three” in Sgaw Karen

သၢ

thuh

three

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

“three” is written သၢ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thuh. 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

ပှၤဒီသကီးသၢဂၤဒီးလိးတီငါက့ၤဆူဟံၣ်
The three friends went home in a taxi.
from “Goat, Dog, Cow, and TV”
တယံာ်ဘၣ် တၢ်မုၢ်တၢ်ဘိဖိတဖၣ်ကဆူထီၣ်အသးလၢတၢ်ချံ မုၢ်တနံၤအ၀ဲကကဲထီၣ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်ဖးဒိၣ် ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ကထီၣ်သၢကုၤဆးဒး ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ကထီၣ်သၢကုၤဆးဒး
Soon... A tiny little plant will come from the seed. One day it will be a tree. And green grass will grow all around. And green grass will grow all around.
from “The Tree”

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