Monday, July 26, 2010

"Indonesia's minority tribe uses Korean Alphabet"

I told you guys in the class that one tribe in Sulawesi, Indonesia uses Hanguel as their alphabet. Here is an article about it :)

"BAU-BAU, Indonesia, July 26 — The Indonesian government has approved a minority tribe's adoption of the Korean alphabet as its official writing system to transcribe its fading spoken language, officials said Monday.

The Cia-Cia, a tribe of some 80,000 people living in the city of Bau-Bau, located on Buton island in southeast Sulawesi, selected the Korean alphabet, called "Hangeul," to preserve its fading language last August. It has since offered a Korean language course in elementary schools."


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