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“town” in Sgaw Karen

ဝ့ၢ်

way̱

town

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

“town” is written ဝ့ၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as way̱. 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

ယခွဲးခွး၀့ၢ်၀ီၤယစုဒဲးတခီးသၣ် ဖၢလီၤအီၤလၢဃၤဖးဒိၣ်ပူၤ လၢကအီၣ်အီၤမ့တမ့ၢ်မၤကဲတၢ်ဃ့ၣ်ဆၢ
The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.
from “The Big Juicy Apple”
နထံၣ်ထွံၣ်ကၠံာ်ဃီၤဆူလိးအအိၣ်ကၠ့ၢ်ဧါ ခဲအံၤအ၀ဲအကၠ့အိၣ်အါကူလၢကပှ့ၤခီၣ်ဖံးလံဒီးအ၀ဲအဲၣ်ဒီးလဲၤလၢ၀့ၢ်ပူၤလီၤ
Did you see Dog running towards cars? Now he has enough money to buy his shoes. He wants to go to town.
from “Goat, Dog, Cow, and TV”

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