“what” in Sgaw Karen
မနုၤလဲၣ်
ma nū lèh
what
“what” is written မနုၤလဲၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ma nū lèh. 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
မ့ၢ်နထံၣ်ဘၣ် ဒါနိစါဧိ စ့ၢ်ကီးဧါ မ့ၢ်နဆိကမိၣ်လၢအသးဝံၣ်သ့စ့ၢ်ကီးဧါ ဒီးလၢမူခိၣ်စူၤကျါန့ၣ် မ့ၢ်နအဲၣ်ဒိးမၤတၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ်
Did you ever see a dinosaur? Do you think it could sing? What do you like to do in the rain?
from “Sing in the Rain” →တိတိးအိးထီၣ်တၢ်ဆါတၢ်ပှၤအတြဲၤလၢအချ ကွၢ်ကွၢ် ကိကိးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအီၣ်သကွံမု၁်ကဆု အိ—အမၤတၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ် ဘၣ်အၢဘၣ်သီလၢာ်လံတိတိးကတိၤတၢ်တထီၣ်ဘးလၢၤဘၣ် ကွၢ်ထံဃီၤတၢ်ဆူကိကိးအအိၣ်
Toto flung open the door of the store. There was Gogo, happily munching on bananas. What a big mess Gogo had made! Toto just stared at him, not able to say a word!
from “Where is Gogo?” →