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Culture
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New pages with information on Karen culture added
Reference
To download printable versions of Drum dictionaries, please click here for more information.
- Transliteration word list : A pdf file designed to be used with the transliteration guide for more practice learning the Karen script.
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Fiction
- Animal Farm : (Sgaw Karen). The George Orwell classic. Did you know Orwell spoke Sgaw Karen?
- The Pearl : (Sgaw Karen) The John Steinbeck classic
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Children's Books
Health Education
- Facts for Life : (Sgaw Karen) The Facts for Life book aims to make life-saving knowledge easily available to everyone. It presents the most important facts that people have a right to know to prevent child deaths and diseases, and to protect women during pregnancy and childbirth.
- Henry and a Special Friend : An HIV/AIDS awareness storybook for children published by Drum can be view here in multiple languages
- Teaching Sureh : (Sgaw Karen) The story of a young boy who is given responsibility to help his younger brother learn to walk, talk, count and play. It encourages children to concern themselves with the development of their pre-school brothers and sisters.
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- Facts for Life : (Burmese) The Facts for Life book aims to make life-saving knowledge easily available to everyone. It presents the most important facts that people have a right to know to prevent child deaths and diseases, and to protect women during pregnancy and childbirth.
- Health Terms Glossary A revised and expanded collection of health related terms in English / Sgaw Karen / Burmese languages
Agriculture
- Low Cost Farming : (Sgaw Karen) A farming manual designed for single farming households in the tropics with limited area. It illustrates how on small plots of land with simple locally available tools, a family can glow enough crops and raise enough livestock to provide a balanced diet for an entire family.
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- Low Cost Farming : (Burmese) A farming manual designed for single farming households in the tropics with limited area. It illustrates how on small plots of land with simple locally available tools, a family can glow enough crops and raise enough livestock to provide a balanced diet for an entire family.
Drum's Karen language quarterly newsletter for kids!
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Additional Resources Available
Digitized versions of some of Rev. Jonathan Wade's English - Sgaw Karen language materials which were first published in the mid-19th century have recently become available.
Thesaurus of Karen knowledge : Comprising traditions, legends or fables, poetry, customs, superstitions, demonology, therapeutics, etc., alphabetically arranged and forming a complete native Karen dictionary, with definitions and examples, illustrating the usages of every word. By J Wade, Sau Kau-Too, 1850.
Hard copies may also be purchase on-line
- A Grammer of the Sgaw Karen, By Rev. Daivd Gimore 1898. The author's aim was to introduce beginners to the principles of Karen grammar.
Swedish - Karen Dictionary : Developed by the Karen Swedish Community
Karen Teacher's Newsletter : Download the Karen Teacher's Newsletter written in Sgaw Karen and English from the good people at the Karen Teacher's Working Group, (KTWG).
Additional Early Childhood Development Material available is Burmese and Sgaw Karen from the Karen Women's Organization
Sgaw Karen Literacy Materials for young learners published by the Thai Karen Baptist Convention (TKBC)
English and Burmese language teaching materials for senior secondary (post 10) students available from The Curriculum Project
Additional health related materials in Karen language available from USCRI
The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology The classic 1922 study of the Karen People in English language
Additional resources for those providing care to resettled refugees and asylees are available to download from our links page here.
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