“word” in Sgaw Karen
တၢ်ကတိၤ
ta ga tōh
word
“word” is written တၢ်ကတိၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta ga tōh. 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
ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤကတီၤပာ်ကၠးခိအဘ့ၣ်တကယၤဒီးကွဲးတၢ်ကတိၤတထံၣ်လီၤဂာ်လီာ်သးလၢကၠးခိလိၤကီးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲးလီၤ
The snail prepared a hundred pieces of paper and wrote the same message on them.
from “The Race” →ဟဲမၤလိတၢ်ကတိၤလၢအသီတဖၣ်ဘၣ်သကိး တၢ်ဖိဒံးဖိဃၢ်မ့ၢ်တမ့ၢ်ထိၣ်အကလုၢ် ဘၣ်တၢ်ကိးအမံၤဒၣ်ဝဲ နသ့ၣ်ညါခဲလၢၥ်ပှဲၤဖျၢၣ်လဲၣ် စိးဝၣ်ဃးကိးကါကါ သၣ်မံညီၤကိးမံဧီၤမံဧီၤ
LET US LEARN SOME NEW WORDS. The sound that each animal or bird makes, has a special name.How many of these do you know? A crow caws. A cat mews.
from “Noisy Crows” →