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“younger sibling” in Sgaw Karen

ပုၢ်

pu̱

younger sibling

“younger sibling” is written ပုၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as pu̱. 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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တအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ဒၢပူၤဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢယပုၢ်မုၣ်အဆ့ဖီလၣ်ဘၣ်

Not in the box. Not under my sister's frock.

from “Lost and Found”

ကမ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်မီၤ ကွၢ်ယပုၢ်ယမိၢ်တဲ၀ဲလၢအလံကျိအါကဲးဆိးလီၤဂာ်ဒီးသုန့ၣ်လီၤ

You may be right. Look at my brother! Mother says he is wild. He is definitely an animal.

from “We Are All Animals”

More Family words

ခံနဲbrother-in-lawတခွါcousinတၢ်တ့တၢ်ဖျီwedding, marriageဒ့မုၣ်little sisterဒီတခွါa cousin (men)ဒီတခွါမုၣ်cousin (female)ဒီဒိၣ်in-laws (the two sets of parents)ဒီပုၢ်ဝဲၢ်sibling, brothers and sisters