ကညီKnyaw
Language: English

“water” in Sgaw Karen

ထံ

hṭee

water

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

“water” is written ထံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hṭee. 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

ထံအိၣ်တနီၤလၢသပၢၤပူၤ
There is some water in the pot.
from “Looking For Water”
တနီၤယူၤသ့ တနီၤပီၢ််ထံသ့
Some of my friends fly. Some of them swim.
from “My Friends”

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