“(classifier for long thin things)” in Sgaw Karen
ဘိ
boh
(classifier for long thin things)
“(classifier for long thin things)” is written ဘိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as boh. 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
ယဘၣ်သးအီၣ်ကိၣ်အဲးလံလၢပၢနုာ်အံသၣ်ဆၢ! ယအဲၣ်ဒိးလဲၤကၠိ! ယအဲၣ်ဒိးသးဝံၣ်တၢ်ဖဲယလုၢ်ထံအခါ! ယအဲၣ်ဒိးသူဝဲယတၢ်ထူးမဲလၢအသီတဘိ!
I DO like idlis with sugar! I DO want to go to school! I DO like singing while I take a bath! I DO want to use my new tooth brush!
from “Do and don't” →တဘျီဃီန့ၣ် ဆးပၠာ်အစီၤပၤဘၤတံးအိၣ်ဖျါထီၣ်အသး“ဘၤတံးဧၢ ပျံၤတၢ်တဂ့ၤ” အဝဲစံးဘၣ်အီၤ “လဲၤကနိဒီးတၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်” ဆးပၠာ်အစီၤပၤဟ့ၣ်လီၤအကလုၢ်လၢဆးပၠာ်သဘှဲအသုးမုၢ်သံၣ်ဘိအအိၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
Suddenly, Soap King Bubbly appears. "Bunty, don’t be afraid," he says. "Go attack the germs!" the Soap King orders his army of bubbles.
from “Bunty and Bubbly” →