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“tired, weary” in Sgaw Karen

ဘှံး

bhgëe

tired, weary

“tired, weary” is written ဘှံး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as bhgëe. 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.

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လၢခံကတၢၢ် ပဒဲတၢ်ဘှံးအသးဒိၣ်မး အ၀ဲမံနီၤဒီးတဲ၀ဲ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ တၢ်ဘှံးယသးဒိၣ်မး နနၢၤတၢ်လံ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖျၢၣ်ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်လၢသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအလီၢ်ခံ

Finally, the rabbit was very tired. He lay down, saying, "Snail, I am so tired; you have won." One snail watched from behind the bush.

from “The Race”

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