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“to lie down” in Sgaw Karen

မံနီၤ

mee nāw

to lie down

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“to lie down” is written မံနီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mee nāw. 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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နါကိၢ်လံဒီးကနဲဃ့ၢ်ထီၣ်ကွံာ်ဝဲ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တဂၤဒီးတဂၤန့ၣ်အဂံၢ်အဘါတအိၣ်လၢၤဘၣ်, ဒီးအဝဲခံဂၤလၢာ်မံနီၤဖၢ်လၢ်ကၣ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်လိလီၤ
Suddenly, the flower opens up and the two small insects manage to escape. Exhausted, they flutter to the ground and fall asleep.
from “Big-Eyed Bee”
လၢခံကတၢၢ် ပဒဲတၢ်ဘှံးအသးဒိၣ်မး အ၀ဲမံနီၤဒီးတဲ၀ဲ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ တၢ်ဘှံးယသးဒိၣ်မး နနၢၤတၢ်လံ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖျၢၣ်ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်လၢသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအလီၢ်ခံ
Finally, the rabbit was very tired. He lay down, saying, "Snail, I am so tired; you have won." One snail watched from behind the bush.
from “The Race”

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