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“to play (an instrument)” in Sgaw Karen

ဒ့

day

to play (an instrument)

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

“to play (an instrument)” is written ဒ့ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as day. 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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ယခိၣ်မီၣ်ယူၤထီၣ်စဲးဘူးဝဲဒၣ်လၢချၢၢ်ဒ့တဒ့အလိၤ

My cap got stuck on a branch of the old Pipal tree.

from “The Moon and the Cap”

ဆၢး မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်ဒီးကွၢ်လၢယနးဒ့ ယသူနးဒ့လၢကသါန့ၣ်ကလံၤ

Fine, but look at my nose. I breathe through my nose.

from “We Are All Animals”

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