“two” in Sgaw Karen

ခံ

khee

two

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

“two” is written ခံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as khee. 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

ကနၢ်လၢအံၤ ယနၢ်ဟူတၢ်သ့ယံၤစၢၢ်တလၢၢ် ခီဖျိလၢယနၢ်ခံပၤ
Yes, but listen! I can hear a lot with my ears!
from “We Are All Animals”
ယကၠီၢ်လီၤလၢသ့ၣ်ခံ ဒီးကွၢ်တၢ်ဝးတ၇ံးဃုအီၣ်ဆၣ်လၢအဝံၣ်အဘဲ
I sit on the tree and look around for some tasty bits of food.
from “Noisy Crows”

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