Indonesian village resorts to Korean alphabet to preserve dying language | South China Morning Post

Almost every villager in the southeastern Indonesian city of Baubau is capable of writing in Hangul, the Korean alphabet. However, they haven’t learned to write the Korean language. Instead, Hangul is being used to preserve their own indigenous dialect, Cia-Cia. Like most of the over 700 languages spoken in the coun…

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