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“to tear” in Sgaw Karen

ယာ်

yạ

to tear

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

“to tear” is written ယာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as yạ. 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

မဲးတလဲးပှ့ၤ ယာ်လုး
Goat bought a blanket.
from “Goat, Dog, Cow, and TV”
ညၢ်ကၤတူၤတဖၣ်အံၤကသုပယာ်ပီာ်လဲၣ်ဖီအဒၢးလၢတၢ်ပလီၢ်ပဒီ သနာ်က့အ၀ဲပျဲယၤ လၢကမၤန့ၣ်တၢ်ဂီၤတစဲးလီၤ
These clownfish carefully guarded their sea anemone home, but finally agreed to let me take a few pictures.
from “Dive!”

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