“to write” in Sgaw Karen
ကွဲး
kweḧ
to write
“to write” is written ကွဲး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kweḧ. 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
ကဆီထံအိၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဖဲန့ၣ် ဟးလိၣ်ကွဲးဒီးအီၣ်နီၢ်လါဟ့လီၤ
Hippo was there too, going for a stroll and eating some nice green grass.
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair” →ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤကတီၤပာ်ကၠးခိအဘ့ၣ်တကယၤဒီးကွဲးတၢ်ကတိၤတထံၣ်လီၤဂာ်လီာ်သးလၢကၠးခိလိၤကီးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲးလီၤ
The snail prepared a hundred pieces of paper and wrote the same message on them.
from “The Race” →