“to sit” in Sgaw Karen
ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ
hsày nāw
to sit
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to sit” is written ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hsày nāw. 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
ယဃုကွၢ်လၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီခိၣ် ဒီးလၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီလာ် လီၤမၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်
I have looked under the chair, I have looked under the stool. Where have you gone?
from “Lost and Found” →