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“to be green” in Sgaw Karen

လါဟ့

lah hay

to be green

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“to be green” is written လါဟ့ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as lah hay. 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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ကဆီထံအိၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဖဲန့ၣ် ဟးလိၣ်ကွဲးဒီးအီၣ်နီၢ်လါဟ့လီၤ
Hippo was there too, going for a stroll and eating some nice green grass.
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair”
အအံၤမ့ၢ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ် သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်အိၣ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်လိၤ အဂံၢ်အိၣ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ပူၤ ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ထီၣ်သကုၤ ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ထီၣ်သကုၤ
Here is a tree. The tree is on the ground. Its roots are in the soil. And green grass grows all around. And green grass grows all around.
from “The Tree”

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