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“to be straight” in Sgaw Karen

လိၤ

loh̄

to be straight

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

“to be straight” is written လိၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as loh̄. 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

ယက့ၤလီၤကယီကယီလၢစဘွဲ ဒီးခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအလိၤ
Slowly, I get down from the table, and down from the chair.
from “I Can Climb!”
ယခိၣ်မီၣ်ယူၤထီၣ်စဲးဘူးဝဲဒၣ်လၢချၢၢ်ဒ့တဒ့အလိၤ
My cap got stuck on a branch of the old Pipal tree.
from “The Moon and the Cap”

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