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“to slap” in Sgaw Karen

ပှီၢ်

phgaw̱

to slap

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

“to slap” is written ပှီၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as phgaw̱. 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

ကဆီထံအဲၣ်ဒီးဂဲကလံၢ် အ၀ဲၤပိၢ်ရံးလီၤအသးလီၤလၢထံကျိပူၤဒီးပှီၢ်ထံလၢအစုးအခီၢ် သပျဲး သပျဲး
Hippo wants to dance. She rolls into the river and splashes her arms and legs. Splish! Splash!
from “Hippo Wants to Dance”

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