“to speak” in Sgaw Karen
ကတိၤ
ga tōh
to speak
“to speak” is written ကတိၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga tōh. 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
အ၀ဲနၢ်ဟူကပီယူၤ မီးကွၢ်ထီၣ်ဆူမူကပိာ်လိး တၢ်မနုၤအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ဖီခိၣ်န့ၣ်လဲၣ် အ၀ဲသံကွၢ်ယၤ ပှၤတစံးဆၢအီၤနီဆဂၤဘၣ် အသးဒ့ဒီမ့ၢ်တၢ်အၢၣ်ကိၣ်လိၣ်တဖၣ်ကတိၤသကိးတၢ်စ့ၢ်ဧါ
She heard the sound of an airplane. Mod looked up into the sky. "What is up there?" she asked. "I wonder if the clouds are talking." But no one answered her.
from “Mod the Toad” →အသု၀ဲကိးအ့နဲသံၣ်ဒီးကၠိး၀ၣ်ဃးဟဲကၠံနုၥ်ဒီးတဘျီ ပန၁်ကၠိး၀ၣ်ဃးလီၤ အသု၀ဲစံး အတမ့ၢ်ပှၤဟုၣ်တၢ်ဘၣ် နကတိၤကူၣ်န့ၢ်တၢ်လၢတမ့ၢ်နတၢ်ဘၣ် အ့နဲသံၣ်ဘူးတန၁်အတၢ်နၣ်ဟူဘၣ် ၀ံၤအဟီၣ်ထီၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်
They summoned Anansi and Vulture again. "We believe Vulture’s story," they said. "He is not the thief. You were trying to claim something that was not yours." Anansi could not believe his ears!
from “Anansi and Vulture” →