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Indigenous Indonesians use Korean letters to save dialect
Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on December 20, 2023
In an Indonesian village, schoolchildren are learning the Cia-Cia language using the Hangul script. The syllable-based Cia-Cia language, spoken by the Cia-Cia ethnic group in Baubau, does not have a written form that readily translates to the Latin alphabet. However, the Korean Hangul script, which shares a similar syllable-based...
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Published on December 22, 2023 - 02:26
Indigenous Indonesians use Korean letters to save dialect
On Buton Island in eastern Indonesia, schoolchildren are using Korean Hangul script to learn their indigenous Cia-Cia tongue. The language of the Cia-Cia ethnic group has no written form, and the syllable-based tongue does not readily translate to the Latin alphabet often used to transcribe Indonesia's national language.