“to read” in Sgaw Karen
ဖးလံာ်
hpä lẹe
to read
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to read” is written ဖးလံာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpä lẹe. 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
တၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံးတဲးဘၣ်ပှၤလၢတၢ်လီၢ်တဖၣ်လၢအထံၣ်၀ဲၤဖဲးအဖးလံာ်တဖၣ် "တၢ်ဆါအီၣ်မ့ၤအလီၢ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်လၢပလိၢ်ဘၣ် အမ့ၢ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢပှၤအီၣ်တၢ်" လံာ်လၢယဖးတဲး၀ဲၤဒ်န့ၣ်"
Little Ant begins to shout about a place he read about. "A restaurant is what we need, a place where people go to feed. It says so in the books I read."
from “Little Ant's Big Plan” →အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤဘၣ်ပှၤလၢအဖးလံာ်တဘ့ၣ်အံၤ ခဲအံၤနသ့ၣ်ညါယသကိးလၢာ်လံ ဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါယၤလၢနသကိးလၢယကသ့ၣ်ညါအီၤသ့ၣ်ကီး!
from “Hello” →