“to row” in Sgaw Karen
ဝၢ်
wa̱
to row
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to row” is written ဝၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as wa̱. 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
တိတိးဟံးထီၣ်မဲာ်ထံကလၤပီၤကွၢ်တၢ်ဖျါလၢအယံၤ ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်သကုၤကံကျိကပၤ မ့ၢ်ကိကိးအိၣ်လၢထံ၀ၢ်အဂၤတကပၤဧါ
Toto whipped out his field glasses. He scanned the area across the river. Was Gogo on the other side?
from “Where is Gogo?” →အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤလီဝၢ်ဒံး လၢအိၣ်လၢလီၢ်ထီၣ်ထီ နဝၢ်နဒံးကပီၤဆူၣ်မး နမ့ၢ်ပှၤမၤပျံၤပှၤ အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤလီသီၣ် ကညီၤထီၣ်လၢမူခိၣ်ထံကျါ နသီၣ်သထြုးလၢတၢ်လီၢ်ကိးတီၤဒဲး
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