“well” in Sgaw Karen

ထံပူၤ

htee pō

well

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“well” is written ထံပူၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as htee pō. 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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ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တထံၣ်ကိကိးအခီၣ်လီၢ်ဘၣ် တိတိး ဟ်လီၤအသးယူၤလီၤလၤထံပူၤ ဘၣ်တဘၣ်ကိကိး ကကီၤကသါဒီးအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢထံကျါ
Gogo was not to be found. Toto took a deep breath and dived into the river. What if Gogo was holding his breath and hiding underwater?
from “Where is Gogo?”
တဘျီအံၤအသူၣ်ဂ့ၤ အ၀ဲတခွ့လီးလၢထံပူၤ ဒီးထံမၤပံာ်ကွံာ်မ့ၢ်လၣ်လၢအူအီၣ်အသ့ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တၢ်ဟးဂီၤကဲထီၣ်လံအသး တုၤအဟးထီၣ်လၢထံပူၤ လၢအသ့ၣ်အလိၤပှဲၤဒီီးတၢ်ပူၤလီၢ်ကဖိထံ
SPLASH! Mod landed right in the pond. For the first time in a long time, she was grateful for the cool water, which put out the flames on her back. But the damage was done. When she came out of the puddle, the skin on her back was covered with blisters.
from “Mod the Toad”

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