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“what” in Sgaw Karen

မနုၤလဲၣ်

ma nū lèh

what

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

“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?”

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