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“you, your” in Sgaw Karen

na

you, your

“you, your” is written န in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as na. 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.

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နဆိကမိၣ်လၢမုၢ်န့ၣ်ကဘၣ်ကၢၣ်ခိၣ်မီၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဧါ

Do you think the sun needs a hat?

from “The Moon and the Cap”

ဒ်လဲၣ်ခီလဲၣ် ပနးဒ့အိၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီး တကးဒ်ဘၣ်ဖျါဂ့ၤန့ၣ်နတၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ

So what? We also have noses and ours are prettier than yours!

from “We Are All Animals”

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