Indigenous Indonesians use Korean letters to save dialect

Name: Indigenous Indonesians use Korean letters to save dialect
Uploaded: 2023-12-22T03:27:13+00:00
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Description: 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

Credit: AFP English

Duration: 02:26s 22 Dec 2023 0 shares 1 views

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.

Indigenous Indonesians use Korean letters to save dialect

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