“to pity, have mercy” in Sgaw Karen
သးကညီၤ
thä ga nyāw
to pity, have mercy
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to pity, have mercy” is written သးကညီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thä ga nyāw. 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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ထီးလၢအလီၤသးကညီၤတဒု အ၀ဲလီၤတဲာ်အနးဒ့လီၤဘၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖျၢၣ် လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိအနးဒ့ဘံၣ်နာ်လီၤကဆီထံဃ့၀ံသးစူပဒဲ ယ၀ံသးစူနၤသပှၢ်တၢၢ် သးကညီၤပျၢ်န့ၢ်ယတၢ်ကမၢ်နီၤ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ပဒဲတကနၢ်ဘၣ် ဒီးဃါကဆီထံနပာ်သးယီၢ်ယခီၣ် မုၢ်တနံၤနကသ့ၣ်ညါ လၢနကဘၣ်လီးက့ၤလီၤ