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“under” in Sgaw Karen

ဖီလာ်

hpaw lạ

under

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

“under” is written ဖီလာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpaw lạ. 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

ယဃုကွၢ်လၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီခိၣ် ဒီးလၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီလာ် လီၤမၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်
I have looked under the chair, I have looked under the stool. Where have you gone?
from “Lost and Found”
တဘျီဃီ ဖဲပအိၣ်လၢထံဖီလာ် ပဒိးန့ၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်တူၢ်လိာ်ပှၤလၢညၢ်မူရိၤဘီတဒူၣ်
As soon as we were underwater, we were greeted by a school of yellowback fusiliers.
from “Dive!”

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