“white” in Sgaw Karen
ဝါ
wah
white
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“white” is written ဝါ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as wah. 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
ပတိကီးညၢ်ကမီအဒံး၀ါတကူၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးဖဲအသူၣ် ဘူၣ် လိၤဖဲအခံကိၢ်န့ၣ်မၤအၢတၢ်တသ့အါဘၣ်အဃိပပီၢ်ထံလဲၤကွၢ်အီၤဘူၣ်ဘူၣ်လီၤ
We came across a couple of whitetip reef sharks resting near the bottom. They’re pretty harmless, so we swam in for a closer look.
from “Dive!” →"၀့ထီၣ်ချ့ချ့" ထိၣ်လွံၢ်၀ါထဲ၀ဲ ဖဲလၢအအ့ာ်ဃာ်သ့ဒ့လၢအနီာ်လိ
from “How Ant Saved Dove” →