“why, for what reason” in Sgaw Karen
ဘၣ်မနုၤ
bà ma nū
why, for what reason
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“why, for what reason” is written ဘၣ်မနုၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as bà ma nū. 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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တုၤတၢ်မၤသးဖှံအလီၢ်ကိၢ်ထီၣ် ကနဲဃီးစးထီၣ်လီၤဘှ့း ထီးအနၢၤလီၤဖျု ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိလၢအိၣ်ဒီးအနၢၤတဖၣ်ဖုးဘၣ်အသး တၢ်တဒုလၢအနၢၤတအိၣ်အံၤမ့ၢ်မတၤလဲၣ် ဟဲဖဲအံၤဘၣ်မနုၤလဲၣ် အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်သံကွၢ်တၢ်မါမးဟၢရိၤနဟီၣ်ဘၣ်မနုၤလဲာ် ယက့ၤအိၣ်ယဖိလၢဒၢးတသ့ဘၣ်from “I Will Help You”