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“tight” in Sgaw Karen

ဃံး

xëe

tight

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

“tight” is written ဃံး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as xëe. 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

မီးတသ့ညါလၢကလဲၤဆူလဲၣ် မ့ၢ်လၣ်စးထီၣ်အူအိီၣ်အချၢ တဘျီဃီဒ့ၣ်သုဖိဆိကမိၣ်ထီၣ်ထံအိၣ်အလီၢ်ဖဲအထံၣ်ဘၣ်ခွံၢ် အ၀ဲသံတံၢ်အမဲာ်ချံဃံးဃံး ကီၤကသါဒီးတခွ့တၢ်ဖးထီဃဃာ်ဃီၤအသးဆူတၢ်လီၢ်လၢထံအိၣ်အလီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
With nowhere to run, the flames began to burn her back. Mod looked frantically for an escape. She spotted a small pond some distance away. It was her only hope. She closed her eyes and leapt as high and far as she could.
from “Mod the Toad”

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