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“to rest” in Sgaw Karen

အိၣ်ဘှံး

òh bwëe

to rest

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

“to rest” is written အိၣ်ဘှံး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as òh bwëe. 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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ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဲဆၢအီၤ ဟဲက့ၤမၤကွၢ်လၢမုၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးနံၤမီၤ

The snail said, "Come and see on Sunday."

from “The Race”

ပတိကီးညၢ်ကမီအဒံး၀ါတကူၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးဖဲအသူၣ် ဘူၣ် လိၤဖဲအခံကိၢ်န့ၣ်မၤအၢတၢ်တသ့အါဘၣ်အဃိပပီၢ်ထံလဲၤကွၢ်အီၤဘူၣ်ဘူၣ်လီၤ

We came across a couple of whitetip reef sharks resting near the bottom. They’re pretty harmless, so we swam in for a closer look.

from “Dive!”

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