A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect Author: Charles Harry Duffin * A ...
A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect Author: Charles Harry Duffin * A ...
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ၦဖျိၩ့ၥံ ၪ အဆၧအၪ့ မွဲန့ၫ ဆၧဒိၭဆၧလၪလီၫဧၪ.<br />
265. When he came to me he showed me a Sgau-<strong>Karen</strong> book to read but as I have forgotten <strong>the</strong> Sgau<br />
language I was unable to read it.<br />
ထီးအဝ့ ၫဂဲၫလၧယအီၪ အဝ့ ၫဒု ၭနဲၪယၧၩ ဖါထံၭအလံၬ လၧယကဖီအဂး, လါနၫ့ ယၥၭနၪ့ ဖါထံၭအဆၧချဲၩ့အကၠ ီၩ့ လဖီၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ.<br />
266. Why? The worship <strong>of</strong> pagodas is not <strong>the</strong>ir religion.<br />
မွဲဘၪလဲၪ, ဆၧဘၩကျီၩ့လဖၪနီၪ မွဲ အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪအထူၫအရူ ၫအ့ ၬ.<br />
267. <strong>Pwo</strong> and Sgau <strong>Karen</strong>s' religion is <strong>the</strong> worship <strong>of</strong> Nats and <strong>of</strong>ferings <strong>of</strong> food.<br />
မိထံၭဒဲဖါထံ ၭၥံ ၪအဆၧဘၩနီၪ ဘၩ ကလိၭကလၬ ဒဲ အၪ့ဎဲၩၥံ ၪလီၫ.<br />
268. Can you tame animals?<br />
နမၩဒိၩ့ ဆၧဖိၪဆၧဎါၥ့ ၪဧၪ.<br />
269. He is an adopted child.<br />
အဝ့ ၫမွဲ ၦအၪ့လု ဖိၪကဂၩလီၫ.<br />
270. Why don't you feed your bullocks?<br />
မွဲဘၪနီၪ နလဒု ၭအၪ့ဘၪ နချီၥံ ၪလဲၪ.<br />
271. I saw a deer in <strong>the</strong> jungle.<br />
ယဒၪဘၪ ဎဲၩကဒု ၩ လၧမံ ၩ့လၬကျၩအဖၧၩ့လီၫ.<br />
(49)<br />
272. I charge him with cheating.<br />
ယအီၪက့ ၪဆၧမၪ လၧအဝ့ ၫမၩဘျံၭမၩဘျၪဆၧလီၫ.<br />
273. I charge him with stealing.<br />
ယအီၪက့ ၪဆၧမၪ လၧအဝ့ ၫအၪ့ဂူၪဆၧလီၫ.<br />
274. He is charged with stealing.<br />
အဝ့ ၫဘၪဆၧအီၪက့ ၪဝ့ ၫ ဆၧမၪလၧအအၪ့ဂူၪဆၧလီၫ.<br />
275. I beat him. He was beaten by me.<br />
ယဒိၪအဝ့ ၫလီၫ. အဝ့ ၫဘၪဆၧဒိၪဝ့ ၫလၧယၧၩလီၫ.<br />
276. But I have no holiday (rest) in my work.<br />
အ့ ၪမွဲယဝ့ ၫဒၪ ယဆၧမၩအဖၧၩ့ ယအီၪပွ ံ ၭဘၪချုၭအ့ ၬ.<br />
277. Being giddy he fell down at once.<br />
အဝ့ ၫအမ့ ၬခံ ၭၥၧၫ့အကၠ ီၩ့ လၩ့ထံၩဖါကကၠၪဎးလီၫ.<br />
278. If you go and speak amongst <strong>the</strong> <strong>Karen</strong>s, you will be able to understand, and your talking will improve.<br />
အ့ ၪနလ့ ၩချဲၩ့လၧ မိထံၭဖျိၩ့အကျၩ, နကနၪၥ့ ၪဒဲ နဆၧချဲၩ့ကအၪထၪ့လီၫ.<br />
279. Before my examination in Sgau-<strong>Karen</strong> I went to a Sgau village for 10 days.<br />
လၧလချုၭယဒိၭအၪ့စၪ့ဒံၭဘၪယၥၭ လၧဖါထံၭလခီၫ ယလ့ ၩလၧဖါထံၭအတဝၫ့လၧလဆံ ၫနံၩအထးဖၧၩ့လီၫ.<br />
280. Though you may read it you will derive no benefit.<br />
အ့ ၪနဖီလါနၫ့တၭ အခိးအတၩကအီၪလၧနဂး နးမံ ၩ့အ့ ၬ.<br />
281. Because that small country is surrounded by large ones, one large country wants to take <strong>the</strong> small one,<br />
ano<strong>the</strong>r large country won't allow it; for this reason <strong>the</strong> small country gets disturbed.<br />
အဂဲးဘဲၫယီၩ ခးဖိၪနီၪဘၪ ဆၧအီၪဝၭဖီၩ့ဝ့ ၫဒဲ ခးဖၭဒိၪလဖၪအကၠ ီၩ့ ခးဖၭဒိၪကဖျိၪ့ မိမၩန့အၥၭ ခးဖိၪနီၪ, အခမျၧးလိးအ့ ၬလၧ ဆၧအဂဲးယီၩအကၠ ီၩ့<br />
ခးဖိၪကကဲၪထၪ့ဘၪ ဆၧမၩဘံ ၪဘူၪလီၫ.<br />
282. I saw in <strong>the</strong> papers that before long <strong>the</strong> King would be expelled from his country.<br />
ယဒၪဘၪ ဆၧပရၧၫ့လဖၪ လၧလယံ ၬဘၪ စဎွၩကဘၪ @ဆၧနၫ့ထၪ့ခွ ံ ၬဝ့ ၫ လၧအထံၫအခးအဖၧၩ့လီၫ.<br />
283. Then <strong>the</strong>re will be a great war.<br />
ထီးနီၪလဖၧၫ့ ဆၧဒု ၭဆၧယၩ ကအီၪထၪ့ဖၭဒိၪလီၫ.<br />
(50)<br />
284. He has not yet finished his work.<br />
အဝ့ ၫမၩ အဆၧမၩဂီၩ့ဒံၭအ့ ၬ.<br />
285. There was a rebellion.<br />
ဆၧပိၩ့ထၪ့ ကဲၪထၪ့လီၫ.