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“to buy” in Sgaw Karen

ပှ့ၤ

phgaȳ

to buy

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

“to buy” is written ပှ့ၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as phgaȳ. 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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ကျီၢ် ပှ့ၤတၢ်ဂီၤမူဒၢ

Cow bought a TV.

from “Goat, Dog, Cow, and TV”

ယပၢ်ပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ဆံၤတူအမဲာ်ဒီး ယမိၢ်ပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ယၤခိၣ်မီၣ်လါအဲး ဒီးပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ယပုၢ်လၢကိာ်ကမၢလီၤ

Papa bought Chintu fancy glasses. Mother bought me a bright blue cap. The baby got sugar candy.

from “The Moon and the Cap”

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