“We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.” in Sgaw Karen
ပမ့ၢ် ပှၤဖိၣ်ဃဲ ဒီးပပၢ် တအိၣ်ဘၣ် ပမိၢ် မၤသး ဒ်ပှၤမုၣ်ကမဲ အသိးန့ၣ်လီၤ
pa may phgā hpòh xeh däw pa pa ta òh bà pa moh mā thä da phgā mù ga meh a thöh này lāw
We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.” is written ပမ့ၢ် ပှၤဖိၣ်ဃဲ ဒီးပပၢ် တအိၣ်ဘၣ် ပမိၢ် မၤသး ဒ်ပှၤမုၣ်ကမဲ အသိးန့ၣ်လီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as pa may phgā hpòh xeh däw pa pa ta òh bà pa moh mā thä da phgā mù ga meh a thöh này lāw. 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.
More Faith words
- ကစၢၢ်တဖၣ် စံၣ်တၢ် ဒ်သိဖါအသိး တၢ်စိခိၣ်န့ၣ် ဒ်သိဖိ အသိးန့ၣ်လီၤThe mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- ကစၢ်lord
- ကစၢ် ယ့ၣ်ၡူး အဘျုးအဖှိၣ်န့ၣ် မ်အအိၣ်ဒီး သု တက့ၢ်May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.
- ကစၢ် အကလုၢ်အကထါ ဟူထီသါလီၤ ဒီကီၢ်ညါန့ၣ်လီၤThe word of the Lord spread through the whole region.
- ကစၢ်ယွၤLord God
- ကတိၤဒိၣ် ပှၤ လၢအမၤတၢ် လၢပဂီၢ် အါမး နီၢ်မၤရံ တက့ၢ်Greet Mary, who worked very hard for us.
- ကနၣ် ယတၢ်ကတိၤ လီၤတံၢ်လီၤဆဲး ဒီးယစံးဘၣ်တဲဘၣ်တၢ်န့ၣ် လၢသုနၢ် တက့ၢ်Listen carefully to my words; let what I say ring in your ears.
- ကယဲၢ် တၢ်ဖံးတၢ်ညၣ် ကသံ တပူၤဃီ ဒီးပှၤကညီ ကကဲက့ၤ ဟီၣ်ခိၣ် အကမူၣ်လီၤAll flesh would perish together, and people would return to dust.