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“twin” in Sgaw Karen

သဃံာ်

tha xẹe

twin

“twin” is written သဃံာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as tha xẹe. 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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ယမ့ၢ်သဃံာ်ခီၣ် ခံၣ်အိၣ်သကုၤယလိၤ

from “Who Is Our Friend?”

အ၀ဲအဲၣ်ဒီးသ့ၣ်ညါသဃံာ်ခီၣ်အဂ့ၢ် “ဘၣ်မနုၤလၢနနၢၤကၠီးခံကၠူလဲၢ်”

from “Curious Baby Elephant”

More Family words

ခံနဲbrother-in-lawတခွါcousinတၢ်တ့တၢ်ဖျီwedding, marriageဒ့မုၣ်little sisterဒီတခွါa cousin (men)ဒီတခွါမုၣ်cousin (female)ဒီဒိၣ်in-laws (the two sets of parents)ဒီပုၢ်ဝဲၢ်sibling, brothers and sisters