“why, for what reason” in Sgaw Karen
ဘၣ်မနုၤ
bà ma nū
why, for what reason
“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.
This word in a story
တုၤတၢ်မၤသးဖှံအလီၢ်ကိၢ်ထီၣ် ကနဲဃီးစးထီၣ်လီၤဘှ့း ထီးအနၢၤလီၤဖျု ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိလၢအိၣ်ဒီးအနၢၤတဖၣ်ဖုးဘၣ်အသး တၢ်တဒုလၢအနၢၤတအိၣ်အံၤမ့ၢ်မတၤလဲၣ် ဟဲဖဲအံၤဘၣ်မနုၤလဲၣ် အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်သံကွၢ်တၢ်
Once the sun rose higher and the day grew warmer, Pig's horns fell off. The horned animals were shocked. "Who’s that with no horns? Why did you come here?" they asked. "I am just a pig," the pig said. "I just wanted to come to the party too."
from “No Pigs Allowed” →မါမးဟၢရိၤနဟီၣ်ဘၣ်မနုၤလဲာ် ယက့ၤအိၣ်ယဖိလၢဒၢးတသ့ဘၣ်
from “I Will Help You” →