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“to say” in Sgaw Karen

စံး

seë

to say

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

“to say” is written စံး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as seë. 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

"နမၤခုၢ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဘၣ်ယၤနီၤ" စံး၀ီာ်ဒ့လၢအမံၤနီၤလၢမဲးခိၣ်တဲး၀ဲၤ "လဲၤဂဲၤကလံၢ်လၢကၢ်လီၢ်ကၢ်ဃၢၤန့ၢ်"
"You’re getting dirt on me!" says Shongololo, sleeping in the sand. "Go dance somewhere else."
from “Hippo Wants to Dance”
ထိၣ်ပှာ်နကသိၣ်လိယၤလၢတၢ်ဂဲၤကလံာ်သ့ဧါ ခါအးသံကွၢ်ထိၣ်ပှာ် ထိၣ်ပှာ်စံး၀ဲသ့သၢၣ် မၤဒ်ယမၤအသိး ခါအးသလၣ်အမဲၢ်ဆူၣ် အ၀ဲခါအခီၣ်ချးတၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်
"Peacock, will you give me dance lessons?" asked Kaage, when she had found him. "Sure," said the peacock. "Just do as I do." Kaage spread her tail feathers. She stepped in time.
from “The Generous Crow”

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