Cia-Cia

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Cia-Cia is an Austronesian language spoken by the Cia-Cia people of Buton Island in Indonesia, known for its attempted adoption of the Korean Hangul script.

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Cia-Cia canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
human language
belongsToMacroArea Papunesia
country Indonesia
documentationLanguage English
Indonesian
Korean
educationExperimentLocation Bau-Bau City on Buton Island
linked to: Baubau
educationExperimentStartYear 2009
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicDistribution Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
linked to: Buton Island
hangulProjectCountry South Korea
hangulProjectPartner Hunminjeongeum Society
linked to: Hunminjeongeum
hangulProjectStatus largely discontinued
hasAlternativeName Bahasa Cia-Cia
linked to: Cia-Cia language

Bahasa Ciacia
linked to: Cia-Cia language

Cia-Cia language
hasEducationExperiment use of Hangul in local school textbooks
hasEthnicGroup Cia-Cia people
hasGlottocode ciac1237
hasISO639-3Code cia
hasLanguageFamilyBranch Celebic
hasLanguagePolicyIssue lack of official recognition for Hangul orthography by Indonesian authorities
hasLinguisticResearchInterest Austronesian comparative studies
script adoption and language planning
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
hasSpeakerCommunity Buton Island coastal communities
hasSubgroup Muna–Buton languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageStatus minority language
linguisticTypology SVO word order
morphologyType agglutinative
notableFor attempted adoption of Korean Hangul script
region Southeast Sulawesi
scriptAdoptionAttempt Hangul
scriptAdoptionAttemptYear 2009
spokenBy Cia-Cia people
spokenIn Indonesia
spokenOn Buton Island
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
usesLatinOrthography yes
writingSystem Hangul
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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