“to learn” in Sgaw Karen
မၤလိ
mā loh
to learn
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to learn” is written မၤလိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mā loh. 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
ပါပၢ်ဧၢ ပါပၢ် ယကီးဖှး ယပၢ်နံၤ စိၤနူး မၤလိနသးလၢက့ၤလီၤဒံးအသ့ ယပၢ်တဲ၀ဲ
"Papa! Papa!" I shout. Papa laughs. "Sonu, learn to climb down!" he says.
from “I Can Climb!” →လၢခံတနံၤန့ၣ်ဖဲယမၤလိတၢ်ကၠိပျၢ်န့ၣ် ယမိၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ယၤလၢခိၣ်မီၣ်ဂီၤကတြ့ာ်အသီတဘ့ၣ် ဒီးတဲယၤလၢလါဖိဟ့ၣ်နၤလီၤ
After school the next day, my mother gave me a shiny new red cap. "The moon sent it," she said.
from “The Moon and the Cap” →