“where” in Sgaw Karen

ဖဲလဲၣ်

hpeh lèh

where

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

“where” is written ဖဲလဲၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpeh 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

နတဲကွၢ်ကွၢ် တနံၤအံၤယကကၢၣ်ခိၣ်မီၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်တဘ့ၣ်လဲၣ်
Guess which cap I am wearing today!
from “The Moon and the Cap”
တအိၣ်လၢခုဒုခၢၣ်အဖီလၣ်ဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢယထၢၣ်ပူၤဘၣ် ဧု ဧု မ့ၢ်အလီၤမၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်
Not under the pillow. Not in my bag. Sob, sob, where have you gone?
from “Lost and Found”

More Everyday words words