A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect Author: Charles Harry Duffin * A ...

ယဖိၪအီၪ အမု ၪကဂၩ ဒဲ အခွၫကဂၩလီၫ.
860. Have you got a gun? နကျီၩ့ အီၪ ကခိၪဧၪ.
861. Do you go to school? နလ့ ၩလၧ ဆၧမၩလိၪဧၪ.
862. Are there any horses here? ထီးယီၩ ကၥ့ ၪအီၪ ကနၩ့နၩ့ဧၪ.
863. Yes, how many do you want? မွဲ, ဘၪနၥၭ ဎွ ့ဒု ၩလဲၪ.
864. I want one horse for my carriage.
ယဘၪယၥၭ ကဒု ၩ လၧယလဲၪ့အဂးလီၫ.
865. Those are very fine bullocks how much did you give for them?
ချီဖၫလဖၪနီၪ ဂ့ ၩမၬတၭ, နဖ့ ၪလၫ့ဘၪအဎွ ့ၩဆံ ၭအၪလဲၪ.
866. I want to smoke a pipe. ယမိအီၩၥံ ၪမိၭခီၫ့လီၫ.
867. Have you got any cigars? နၥံ ၪမိၭအီၪကနၩ့နၩ့ဆ့ ဧၪ.
868. No, my cigars are lost. အီၪအ့ ၬ, ယၥံ ၪမိၭလဖၪ လၩ့မါခွ ံ ၬလီၫ.
869. Is the Pwo-Karen language difficult? မိထံၭ အဆၧချဲၩ့နီၪ ကၪ ဧၪ.
870. Do not make a noise, you will wake the baby.
ထီးမၩၥီၫဆၧလဂ့ ၩ, နကမၩဂဲထု ၪ့ ဖိၪၥၪလီၫ.
PETITIONS &c.
No. 1.
The accused before the Court is charged with having stolen some clothes belonging to Maung Po. The facts are
as follows: - at 5 o'clock on the morning of the 30th June, the complaint on waking up found that his box of
clothes, which he kept at the head of his bed, was missing; when he searched for it, the box was found
outside broken-open and all the clothes from it were missing. Three days afterwards at a 'pwe' the complainant
saw the accused wearing a 'patso,' which he recognised as his. He at once told the Thugyi, who arrested the
accused. The 'patso' is recognised by five witnesses, and the accused can only say that he bought it, but he
cannot tell the name of the man from whom he bought it. The case is very clear, so I sentence the accused to
30 stripes.
ၦဘၪန့အမူၭ လၧအအီၪလၧရိၩ့အမ့ ၬယၫဘၪ ဆၧအီၪက့ ၪဝ့ ၫဆၧမၪ လၧအဝ့ ၫအၪ့ဂူၫ ဆၧကီၩ့ဆၧၥိၭ ကနၩ့နၩ့, လၧအဘၪဆဲၫ့, မီၫ့ဖိ နီၪလီၫ.
အဂဲးလဖၪ ဂဲၫဝ့ ၫဘဲၫယီၩ, လၧလၩယူၩ ၃၀ ၥၫ့ လၧဂီၩလခီၫ ယဲနၩရံ ၩအခၫ, ထီးၦအမူၭဆါ နၪ့ထၪ့အၥၭ, အဝ့ ၫဒၪဘၪအဆၧကီၩ့ဆၧၥိၭ အတလၫ
လၧအအီၪက့ ၪဝ့ ၫလၧအမံ ၩ့ထၭခိၪနီၪ, လၩ့မါခွ ံ ၬဝ့ ၫလီၫ. ထီးအဝ့ ၫအၪ့ဎၬဝ့ ၫအခၫ, တလၫဘၪဆၧဒၪန့ဝ့ ၫ လၧခီၫ့လခီၫဘၪဆၧမၩထ့ ၬဖၭ ဒဲ
ဆၧကီၩ့ဆၧၥိၭလၧအဖၧၩ့ လၩ့မါခွ ံ ၬ ထီးအလူၬလီၫ. အလးခဲၫ့ ၥၧၫ့နံၩလၧ ဆၧဘိၪ့အဖၧၩ့ ၦအမူၭဆါဒၪဘၪ ၦဘၪန့အမူၭ ကီၩ့ၥိၭ
ၡၫ့ကဘံ ၪ့လၧအဝ့ ၫထီးနဲၫ့မွဲအဆၧလီၫ. အဝ့ ၫကထံ ၪဎး လီၩဘၪ ၥကၠ ံ ၩ ဒဲ အဝ့ ၫဖီၩ့ထၬ ၦဘၪန့အမူၭလီၫ. ၡၫ့နီၪ ဘၪဆၧထီးနဲၫ့ဝ့ ၫ လၧၥဲၬၥ့ ၫ ယဲဂၩ
ဒဲ ၦဘၪန့အမူၭ လီၩဝ့ ၫၥ့ ၪန့ လၧအဎွ ့ၩဝ့ ၫလီၫ. လါနၫ့ လီၩ ၦအမံ ၩ့ လၧအဎွ ့ၩဝ့ ၫနီၪ ၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ. ဆၧအမူၭ ပျၩ့ ဂ့ ၩဘၪစဲၪအကၠ ီၩ့ ယစ့ ၩရၫ့စၪ
ၦဘၪန့အမူၭလၧ အကဘၪ ဒိၪအထု ၪ ၃၀ လီၫ.
No. 2.
The accused Maung Maung is brought before me by the Thugyi because he is a bad character and is always
threatening to beat other people. The accused goes about the village carrying a knife, with which he threatens
to kill everyone who interferes with him. There have also been many thefts in the village lately, and accused is
suspected of having committed them himself. He also goes about the neighbouring villages gambling. A person
like the accused is a danger to the public and I therefore sentence him to give two sureties of Rs 200 each to
be of good behaviour for 6 months; if he fails to do this, I sentence him to 6 months rigorous imprisonment.
ၦဘၪန့အမူၭမီၫ့မီၫ့ဘၪ ဆၧဂဲၫဆိၬလၧ ယမ့ ၬယၪလၧအဝ့ ၫအၥကၠ ံ ၩလၧအဝ့ ၫဒၪမွဲ ၦအအၧၩ့ကဂၩအကၠ ီၩ့ ဒဲ အဝ့ ၫကိၭကၠၪဒ့ ၭခၧးလၧအဒိၪၦအဂူၫဂၩလီၫ.
ၦဘၪန့အမူၭ လ့ ၩဝံၩ့ဝၩ့တဝၫ့အဖၧၩ့, ဆိၬဒီၩကဘံ ၪ့လၧအခၧး ကမၩၥံ ၫ ၦကဂၩလါလါ လၧအမၩထံၭထၬအဝ့ ၫလီၫ. လၧလယံ ၬဒံၭဘၪအခၫ
ၦအၪ့ဂူၫဆၧအၪအၪ လၧတဝၫ့ဖၧၩ့, ဒဲ ၦဘၪန့အမူၭဘၪ ဆၧဆီၫ့မီၪ့ဝ့ ၫ လၧအဝ့ ၫအနၫ့ဆါဒၪဝ့ ၫလီၫ. အဝ့ ၫလ့ ၩဝံၩ့ဝၩ့ ထၩဆၧ
လၧတဝၫ့အနဲၩ့ဎီၩ့အကျၩဆ့ ၬလီၫ. ၦလၩ့ဂၬ ၦဘၪန့အမူၭကဂၩ မွဲဆၧၥၭမဲၪအလး လၧၦခမျၧးအဂးအကၠ ီၩ့, ယစ့ ၩရၫ့စၪ အဝ့ ၫလၧ အကဘၪ ဖ့ ၪလၫ့
ၦထိးအၥၭ နံၫဂၩကကၨၭ စ့ ၩကဂၩ ၂၀၀ ဘၭ လၧအဝ့ ၫကအီၪဂ့ ၩဂ့ ၩ လၧလၩဎူၫဘံ ၪ့အထးဖၧၩ့လီၫ. အ့ ၪမၩဝ့ ၫဘဲၫယီၩ လၥ့ ၪဘၪ, ယစ့ ၩရၫ့စၪ