“to smile” in Sgaw Karen
နံၤကမှံ
nēe ga mhgee
to smile
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to smile” is written နံၤကမှံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as nēe ga mhgee. 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
ဆိနၤနံၤကမှံထီၣ်ဒီးသံကွၢ်ဝဲ “ဘၣ်မနုၤနဟဲဖဲအံၤလဲၣ်” “ဘၣ်ယၤတမုာ်လၢၤဘၣ်” နီၢ်ပၤမုၣ်ဖိတဲဝဲ “ယအဲၣ်ဒိးဒိကနၣ်နပၢ်တဲတၢ်ဃဲၤပူဘၣ်ဆၣ်နမၤတံာ်တာ်နပၢ်ထီဘိလီၤ” ဆိနၤနံၤထီၣ်ဝဲမ့ၢ်လၢအမ့ၢ်တၢ်အနီၢ်ကီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤfrom “The Storybook Princess”