“to talk” in Sgaw Karen
တဲတၢ်
teh ta
to talk
“to talk” is written တဲတၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as teh ta. 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
ခ့ယုၢ်ကညီ ဆွံၣ်မီၤတၢ် စိးဝၣ်ဃးကိးသဲဖးဒိၣ် ပှၤကညီတဲတၢ်သဲဖးဒိၣ် ပတဲအီၤလၢ "ကလုၢ်သဲဒိၣ်ဒ်သိးစိးဝၣ်ဃး"
A lion roars. A dog barks. Crows make a lot of noise. So when some people talk loudly we say, "As noisy as a crow".
from “Noisy Crows” →ဆိနၤအပၢ်အိးထီၣ်ကဒီးလံာ်လၢအသီတဘျီဒီးတဲတၢ်ဃဲၤပူလၢအသီတယုၢ် “တဘျီ မုၢ်ဒီးကလံၤတၤလိာ်အသး” “ပၢ်ဧၢ ဘၣ်မနုၤမုၢ်န့ၢ်ကိၢ်ဒိၣ်လဲၣ်” ဆိနၤစံးကွၢ်ဝဲ
from “The Storybook Princess” →