“to be few” in Sgaw Karen
စှၤ
shgā
to be few
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to be few” is written စှၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as shgā. 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
ဆိနၤကတိၤထီၣ်ဝဲဒၣ် “ပၢ်ဧၢ ဘၣ်မနုၤအနီၢ်ဆံးထဲစုမုၢ်ကျၢၢ်လဲၣ်? “မ့ၢ်လၢအအီၣ်တၢ်စှၤဒီးအဒိၣ်နီၢ်” အပၢ်စံးဆၢအီၤ “ဘၣ်မနုၤလၢအအီၣ်တၢ်စှၤလဲၣ်?” ဆိနၤသံကွၢ်ဝဲ “မ့ၢ်လၢအဒူၣ်ဖိထၢဖိမ့ၢ်ပှၤဖှီၣ်ပှၤယာ်လီၤ”from “The Storybook Princess”