Cia-Cia language (English Wikipedia)

Visser, Leontine E. (1989), "Foreign Textiles in Sahu Culture", in Gittinger, Mattiebelle (ed.), To Speak with Cloth: Studies in Indonesian Textiles, Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, University of California, pp. 80–90, ISBN 978-0-930741-17-4, OCLC 20970370, Because of its strategic geographical position, Buton served as a major stopping place for military and merchant vessels, whence it got the name of "market", after the Ternate word butu for marketplace.
Sampson, Geoffrey (1985). Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 120. ISBN 0-8047-1756-7 – via Internet Archive.

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Widadio, Nicky Aulia (23 October 2025). "Kampung di Buton meminjam aksara Korea demi lestarikan bahasa Cia-Cia yang terancam punah – Berhasilkah mereka?" [A village in Buton borrowed the Korean script in order to preserve the endangered Cia-Cia language – were they successful?]. BBC Indonesia (in Indonesian).

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Yu, Jae-Yeon (6 August 2009). "印尼 소수민족, '한글' 공식 문자로 채택" [Hangul adopted as official alphabet of Indonesian minority group]. No Cut News (in Korean). Archived from the original on 15 November 2021.

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조선일보 (3 August 2020). "[사람과 이야기] 찌아찌아족(인도네시아 소수민족)에 문자 선물... "한글은 내 운명"". 조선일보 (in Korean). Retrieved 27 October 2025.
이한수 (7 October 2009). "[오늘의 세상] 일(日)언론 "한글 '수출'... 한국인 발상 놀랍다"". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 27 October 2025.

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"Adoption of Hangeul by Indonesian Tribe Hits Snag". The Chosun Ilbo. 10 October 2011. Archived from the original on 13 December 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2017.

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Havens, Emily (2024). "A Phonological Sketch of Ciacia, with Implications for Orthography" (PDF). Dallas International University.

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Anceaux, Johannes Cornelis; Grimes, Charles E.; van den Berg, René (1995), "Wolio", in Tryon, Darrell T. (ed.), Comparative Austronesian Dictionary: An Introduction to Austronesian Studies, Trends in Linguistics. Documentation, vol. 10, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 573–584, doi:10.1515/9783110884012.1.573, ISBN 978-3-11-088401-2, OCLC 896406022
Visser, Leontine E. (2019), "The Historical Paths of Sahu Ceremonial Textiles", Archipel. Études interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien, 98: 121–150, doi:10.4000/archipel.1560, ISSN 0044-8613, OCLC 8599457798, The island was their "market" or butu in Ternate language. Thus the island became known as Buton.
Dessiar, Achmad Rio (27 October 2021). "A Contrastive Study on Korean and Cia-Cia Language Vowels Based on an Acoustic Experiment". Jurnal Humaniora. 33 (3): 182. doi:10.22146/jh.68044.
Kisyani Laksono; Yunisse Fendri; Dianita Indrawati (2017). "Bahasa Ciacia Dan Aksara Kontemporernya". Jurnal Budaya Nusantara (in Indonesian). 1 (1): 55–67. doi:10.36456/JBN.VOL1.NO1.991. ISSN 2355-3367. Wikidata Q127692038.

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Cia-Cia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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Butonese – Orientation

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DeFrancis, John (1989). Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems. University of Hawaiʻi Press. p. 196. ISBN 0-8248-1207-7.

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Anya, Agnes (20 December 2023). "Indigenous Indonesians use Korean letters to save dialect". The Japan Times (Agence France-Presse).

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"Indonesian Minority to Publish Hangul Dictionary to Preserve Ethnic Language". Korea Bizwire. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2023.

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So-hyun, Kim (2 April 2023). "[Hello Hangeul] Sharing the Korean alphabet with the world". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 5 January 2024.

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Lee, Tae-hoon (6 October 2010). "Hangeul didn't become Cia Cia's official writing – The Korea Times". The Korea Times. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
Yi, Whan-woo (8 October 2012). "Sejong Institute withdrawal to leave Cia-Cia out in cold". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on 6 February 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2017.

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Suhartono, Muktita (4 November 2024). "An Indonesian Tribe's Language Gets an Alphabet: Korea's". New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
Choe, Sang-Hun (11 September 2009). "South Korea's Latest Export: Its Alphabet". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2025.

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Wells, John (20 October 2009). "Cia-Cia". John Wells's phonetic blog. With one exception, the Cia-Cia phonemes can be mapped onto a subset of those of Korean and are therefore written the same way. The exception is the fricative /v/, which is not found in contemporary Korean, but for which Lee resurrected the obsolete hangul jamo (or Korean letter) ᄫ (U+112B). (ᄫ was used as a symbol for the voiced bilabial fricative.) The Cia-Cia implosives /ɓ/ and /ɗ/ are written with standard hangul jamo, as ㅍ and ㅌ. So the series /t, d, ɗ/ are written with the jamo that in Korean stand for /t*, t~d, th/ respectively, namely ㄸ, ㄷ, ㅌ.
Wells, John (20 October 2009). "Cia-Cia". John Wells's phonetic blog.

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La Yani Konisi; Ahid Hidayat (2001). Analisis kategori kata bahasa cia liwungau (Research report) (in Indonesian). Universitas Terbuka Kendari.
Dessiar, Achmad Rio (27 October 2021). "A Contrastive Study on Korean and Cia-Cia Language Vowels Based on an Acoustic Experiment". Jurnal Humaniora. 33 (3): 182. doi:10.22146/jh.68044.

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van den Berg, Rene (1991). "Preliminary notes on the Cia-Cia language (South Buton)". Excursies in Celebes (PDF). Leiden: KITLV. pp. 305–324.

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Mead, David (17 January 2014), "Cia-Cia", Sulawesi Language Alliance, retrieved 25 November 2024
Mead, David (17 January 2014), "Wolio", Sulawesi Language Alliance, retrieved 25 November 2024

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Kisyani Laksono; Yunisse Fendri; Dianita Indrawati (2017). "Bahasa Ciacia Dan Aksara Kontemporernya". Jurnal Budaya Nusantara (in Indonesian). 1 (1): 55–67. doi:10.36456/JBN.VOL1.NO1.991. ISSN 2355-3367. Wikidata Q127692038.

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"Adoption of Hangeul by Indonesian Tribe Hits Snag". The Chosun Ilbo. 10 October 2011. Archived from the original on 13 December 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
Yi, Whan-woo (8 October 2012). "Sejong Institute withdrawal to leave Cia-Cia out in cold". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on 6 February 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
Ryu, Il-Hyeong (6 January 2020). "표기문자 '한글' 채택한 인니 찌아찌아족 '언어사전' 첫 편찬" [First dictionary of the language of the Cia-Cia people in Indonesia that adopted Hangul to be compiled]. Yonhap News (in Korean). Archived from the original on 6 January 2020.
Yu, Jae-Yeon (6 August 2009). "印尼 소수민족, '한글' 공식 문자로 채택" [Hangul adopted as official alphabet of Indonesian minority group]. No Cut News (in Korean). Archived from the original on 15 November 2021.

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찌아찌아 ᄙᅡ뽀코어-인도네시아어-한국어 사전 [Kamus bahasa Ciacia Laporo – Indonesia – Korea] (in Cia-Cia, Indonesian, and Korean). Seoul: Youkrack Books. 27 December 2021. ISBN 979-11-6742-261-3. OCLC 1361784532. Wikidata Q127692046.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
Kisyani Laksono; Yunisse Fendri; Dianita Indrawati (2017). "Bahasa Ciacia Dan Aksara Kontemporernya". Jurnal Budaya Nusantara (in Indonesian). 1 (1): 55–67. doi:10.36456/JBN.VOL1.NO1.991. ISSN 2355-3367. Wikidata Q127692038.

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Anceaux, Johannes Cornelis; Grimes, Charles E.; van den Berg, René (1995), "Wolio", in Tryon, Darrell T. (ed.), Comparative Austronesian Dictionary: An Introduction to Austronesian Studies, Trends in Linguistics. Documentation, vol. 10, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 573–584, doi:10.1515/9783110884012.1.573, ISBN 978-3-11-088401-2, OCLC 896406022
Visser, Leontine E. (2019), "The Historical Paths of Sahu Ceremonial Textiles", Archipel. Études interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien, 98: 121–150, doi:10.4000/archipel.1560, ISSN 0044-8613, OCLC 8599457798, The island was their "market" or butu in Ternate language. Thus the island became known as Buton.
Visser, Leontine E. (1989), "Foreign Textiles in Sahu Culture", in Gittinger, Mattiebelle (ed.), To Speak with Cloth: Studies in Indonesian Textiles, Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, University of California, pp. 80–90, ISBN 978-0-930741-17-4, OCLC 20970370, Because of its strategic geographical position, Buton served as a major stopping place for military and merchant vessels, whence it got the name of "market", after the Ternate word butu for marketplace.
Wright, Tom; Fairclough, Gordon (12 September 2009). "To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean – WSJ". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
찌아찌아 ᄙᅡ뽀코어-인도네시아어-한국어 사전 [Kamus bahasa Ciacia Laporo – Indonesia – Korea] (in Cia-Cia, Indonesian, and Korean). Seoul: Youkrack Books. 27 December 2021. ISBN 979-11-6742-261-3. OCLC 1361784532. Wikidata Q127692046.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
Kisyani Laksono; Yunisse Fendri; Dianita Indrawati (2017). "Bahasa Ciacia Dan Aksara Kontemporernya". Jurnal Budaya Nusantara (in Indonesian). 1 (1): 55–67. doi:10.36456/JBN.VOL1.NO1.991. ISSN 2355-3367. Wikidata Q127692038.

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Wright, Tom; Fairclough, Gordon (11 September 2009). "To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean". The Wall Street Journal.
Wright, Tom; Fairclough, Gordon (12 September 2009). "To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean – WSJ". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 27 October 2025.

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Ryu, Il-Hyeong (6 January 2020). "표기문자 '한글' 채택한 인니 찌아찌아족 '언어사전' 첫 편찬" [First dictionary of the language of the Cia-Cia people in Indonesia that adopted Hangul to be compiled]. Yonhap News (in Korean). Archived from the original on 6 January 2020.

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"Wow... Ada Kampung Korea di Sulawesi Tenggara!" [Wow... There's a Korean village in Southeast Sulawesi] (in Indonesian). Kompas TV. 7 April 2017 – via YouTube.

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