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“very tall” in Sgaw Karen

ဖးထီ

hpä htaw

very tall

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“very tall” is written ဖးထီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpä htaw. 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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"နဲဒၣ်န့ၣ် နဘၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ယဲယကယူၤလီၤလၢနချၢဃံ" ဆိထူတဲဘၣ် ကိလူဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ဆိထူတခွ့ထီၣ်ခီၣ်ဖးထီ
“You sit down. I’ll land on your back in one flying leap,” said Chhotu. Golu sat down. Chhotu took a mighty leap.
from “Playtime”
မီးတသ့ညါလၢကလဲၤဆူလဲၣ် မ့ၢ်လၣ်စးထီၣ်အူအိီၣ်အချၢ တဘျီဃီဒ့ၣ်သုဖိဆိကမိၣ်ထီၣ်ထံအိၣ်အလီၢ်ဖဲအထံၣ်ဘၣ်ခွံၢ် အ၀ဲသံတံၢ်အမဲာ်ချံဃံးဃံး ကီၤကသါဒီးတခွ့တၢ်ဖးထီဃဃာ်ဃီၤအသးဆူတၢ်လီၢ်လၢထံအိၣ်အလီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
With nowhere to run, the flames began to burn her back. Mod looked frantically for an escape. She spotted a small pond some distance away. It was her only hope. She closed her eyes and leapt as high and far as she could.
from “Mod the Toad”

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