“tortoise” in Sgaw Karen

ချံး

khleë

tortoise

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

“tortoise” is written ချံး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as khleë. 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.

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အဝဲအဲၣ်တၢ်ဂဲၤလိာ်ကွဲကဘီလၢပှၤချံးအီၤလၢစးခိ
She loves to play with paper boats.
from “Bunty and Bubbly”
ပပိာ်ချံးတဘ့ၣ်အခံတစိၢ်ဖိလံ ဖဲအ၀ဲကွၢ်တရံးတၢ်၀းလၢၢ်ဘၣ်အၢဒ် သိးကဃုကုၤပိာ်လဲၣ်လၢအ၀ံာ်ဒ်သိးကကဲတၢ်အိီၣ်လၢမုၣ်ထူၣ်ခါအဂီၢ်
We followed this hawksbill turtle for a while as he looked around the reef for a nice sea sponge to lunch on.
from “Dive!”

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