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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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
human language
belongsToMacroArea Papunesia
country Indonesia
documentationLanguage English NERFINISHED
Indonesian
Korean
educationExperimentLocation Bau-Bau City on Buton Island NERFINISHED
educationExperimentStartYear 2009
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicDistribution Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia NERFINISHED
hangulProjectCountry South Korea NERFINISHED
hangulProjectPartner Hunminjeongeum Society NERFINISHED
hangulProjectStatus largely discontinued
hasAlternativeName Bahasa Cia-Cia NERFINISHED
Bahasa Ciacia NERFINISHED
Cia-Cia language NERFINISHED
hasEducationExperiment use of Hangul in local school textbooks
hasEthnicGroup Cia-Cia people NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageStatus minority language
linguisticTypology SVO word order
morphologyType agglutinative
notableFor attempted adoption of Korean Hangul script
region Southeast Sulawesi NERFINISHED
scriptAdoptionAttempt Hangul NERFINISHED
scriptAdoptionAttemptYear 2009
spokenBy Cia-Cia people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Indonesia
spokenOn Buton Island NERFINISHED
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
usesLatinOrthography yes
writingSystem Hangul
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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