“(classifier for times)” in Sgaw Karen
ဘျီ
blaw
(classifier for times)
“(classifier for times)” is written ဘျီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as blaw. 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
ဘၣ်တဘျီဘျီယတံၤသကိး ကိးလူကိးဖှးလၢမုၢ်နၤခါ ဖဲန့ၣ်အဆၢကတီၢ်ယမံယဲဘှ့ၣ်ဘှ့ၣ်ဘှီၣ်ဘှီၣ်လီၤ
My friends sometimes make a lot of noise at night. By then I am quietly in bed.
from “Clean Cat” →စိဖံယူၤထီထီၣ်ဒီးတဲဝဲ "ကွၢ်လၢန့ၣ် ယကမၤန့ၣ်ထံဆၢလၢအအါကတၢၢ်!" အဝဲယူၤဖုၣ်လီၤဒီးမၤန့ၢ်ထံဆၢလၢဖီတဖီးဘၣ်တဖီးအအိၣ် အဝဲတကနၣ်ဃုာ်ကနဲအဂၤဘၣ် တဘျီဘျီစိဖံကအီကွၢ်ဖီအထံဆၢစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
The bees work hard gathering nectar. But Sophy is not pleased that no one is paying attention to her. "Look everyone! I have already filled my jar with nectar. I even have enough left over for a snack."
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →