Cia-Cia

Cia-Cia
Spoken in	Indonesia ( Buton and offshore islands)
speaker	79,000
Linguistic ; classification	Austronesian Malayo Polynesian Celebic Muna buton Cia-Cia ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cia

The Cia-Cia is a Malayo-Polynesian language . It is spoken by about 79,000 people (as of 2005), who are spread over the southern part of the island of Buton and the offshore islands of Binongko and Batu Alas in Indonesia .

The language is divided into several dialects and is considered to be related to the languages Lasalimu, Kamaru, Kulisusu and Pancana, which are also spoken in Buton.

Writing

Historically, the language was written in Arabic script ( Gundhul ). Cia-Cia made international headlines when the largest city in the language area, Bau-Bau , decided to use the Korean Hangul script to spell the language. In order to be able to write down all sounds of the Cia-Cia in the Hangeul script, the character ㅸ, which is not used in Korean , was used for the sound / v /. However, the project was abandoned in 2012 and the language is now written in Latin.

Cia-Cia in Latin script
Consonants	G	k	n	d	ie	t	r ~ gh	l	m	b	v ~ w	bra	p	s	'	ng	j	c	H
IPA	/ ɡ /	/ k /	/ n /	/ ɗ /	/ d /	/ t /	/ r ~ ʁ /	/ l /	/ m /	/ ɓ /	/ β /	/ b /	/ p /	/ s /	/ ʔ /	/ ŋ /	/ dʒ /	/ tʃ /	/H/
Vowels	a	e	O	u	i
IPA	/ a /	/ e /	/O/	/ u /	/ i /

Cia-Cia in Hangeul
Consonants	G	k	n	d	ie	t	r	l	m	b	v	bra	p	s	'	ng	j	c	H
Hangeul	ㄱ	ㄲ	ㄴ	ㄷ	ㅌ	ㄸ	ㄹ	ᄙ	ㅁ	ㅂ	ㅸ	ㅍ	ㅃ	ㅅ	ㅇ	ㅇ	ㅈ	ㅉ	ㅎ
Vowels	a	e	O	u	i	(zero)
Hangeul	ㅏ	ㅔ	ㅗ	ㅜ	ㅣ	ㅡ

Example of the planned Hangeul script:

아디	세링	빨리	노 논또	뗄레 ᄫ ᅵ 시.	아마노	노 뽀옴 바에	이아	나누 몬또	뗄레 ᄫ ᅵ 시	꼴 리에	노몰 렝오.
adi	sering	pali	nononto	televisi.	amano	nopo'ombae	ia	nanumonto	televisi	colie	nomolengo.