“to slap” in Sgaw Karen
ပှီၢ်
phgaw̱
to slap
“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” →