“wife” in Sgaw Karen
မါ
mah
wife
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“wife” is written မါ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mah. 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
ဖီအကမူၣ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်ဖိပျံလၢသဲၣ်ဖးလီၤဆုညီ ဖီကမူၣ်ဒုးကဲထီၣ်တၢ်ချံ ကနဲမ့ၣ်ပှၤဆှၢတၢ်လၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်မ့ၢ်လၢအ၀ဲသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အဃိတၢ်မဲတၢ်မါအသီသီအါအါဂီၢ်ဂီၢ်ဒိၣ်ထီၣ်မဲထီၣ်ဃံလၤသကုၤဆးဒးလီၤ
Pollen is the powdery grain on flowers. Pollen helps plants to make seeds. Bees are excellent pollinators. Thanks to them, many new plants grow and sprout all around.
from “Why Do Bees Buzz?” →မါမးဟၢရိၤနဟီၣ်ဘၣ်မနုၤလဲာ် ယက့ၤအိၣ်ယဖိလၢဒၢးတသ့ဘၣ်
from “I Will Help You” →