“wind” in Sgaw Karen
ကလံၤ
ga lēe
wind
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“wind” is written ကလံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga lēe. 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
ဆၢး မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်ဒီးကွၢ်လၢယနးဒ့ ယသူနးဒ့လၢကသါန့ၣ်ကလံၤ
Fine, but look at my nose. I breathe through my nose.
from “We Are All Animals” →ဖဲလၢယဟဲက့ၤလၢကျဲအခါ ကလံၤဟဲဆူၣ်ဒိၣ်မး ဒီးယခိၣ်မီၣ်ယူၤကွံာ်ဖးယံၤညါလီၤ
On the way home, a very strong wind came. It blew my cap away.
from “The Moon and the Cap” →