In an eastern Indonesian village, schoolchildren scrawl the distinctive circles and lines of Hangul script on a whiteboard, but the language they are learning is not Korean. It is their own Indigenous Cia-Cia tongue. The language of the Cia-Cia ethnic group in southeast Sulawesi pro ..
Rest of World News: In an Indonesian village, schoolchildren are learning the Cia-Cia language using the Hangul script. The syllable-based Cia-Cia language, spoken by the
In an eastern Indonesian village, schoolchildren scrawl the distinctive circles and lines of Hangul script on a whiteboard, but the language they are learning is not Korean.But for Sarianto, who was among the students who learned Hangul in South Korea, the script has "sparked the creation of new discourses dedicated to the preservation of the Cia-Cia language".