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“to die” in Sgaw Karen

သံ

thee

to die

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

“to die” is written သံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thee. 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

မီးတသ့ညါလၢကလဲၤဆူလဲၣ် မ့ၢ်လၣ်စးထီၣ်အူအိီၣ်အချၢ တဘျီဃီဒ့ၣ်သုဖိဆိကမိၣ်ထီၣ်ထံအိၣ်အလီၢ်ဖဲအထံၣ်ဘၣ်ခွံၢ် အ၀ဲသံတံၢ်အမဲာ်ချံဃံးဃံး ကီၤကသါဒီးတခွ့တၢ်ဖးထီဃဃာ်ဃီၤအသးဆူတၢ်လီၢ်လၢထံအိၣ်အလီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
With nowhere to run, the flames began to burn her back. Mod looked frantically for an escape. She spotted a small pond some distance away. It was her only hope. She closed her eyes and leapt as high and far as she could.
from “Mod the Toad”
"ယမ့ၢ်တန့ၢ်အီထံဘၣ်ဒီးယကသံသပှၢ်တၢၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ" တၢၢ်ဖိကိးထီၣ်၀ဲ "ယကဘၣ်လဲၤလၢထံကျိ လၢယန့ၣ်နၣ်ဟူဘၣ်အီၤ"
from “How Ant Saved Dove”

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