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Indonesian Tribe Adopts Korean Hangul to Preserve Ancient Cia-Cia Language

✇NYT | Top Stories
Muktita Suhartono
The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, the Korean script.

© Nyimas Laula for The New York Times

Teaching Hangul, the Korean alphabet, to Cia-Cia children in Baubau, Indonesia. People trying to preserve the tribe’s spoken language found that the Korean script was a good fit for it.

An Indonesian Tribe’s Language Gets an Alphabet: Korea’s

✇NYT | Top Stories
Muktita Suhartono
The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, the Korean script.

© Nyimas Laula for The New York Times

Teaching Hangul, the Korean alphabet, to Cia-Cia children in Baubau, Indonesia. People trying to preserve the tribe’s spoken language found that the Korean script was a good fit for it.
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