Korean Alphabet in an Indonesian Island
The Cia-Cia tribe, the population of 60,000, is one of the many tribes in Indonesia. Their Island being located at centered in Bau-Bau, a town on Buton Island. All of these tribes (about 1000) have their own writing system (about 700 writing systems). Unfortunately, the Cia-Cia tribe did not have a writing system. Luckily, few members of their government visited South Korea and found out about Hangul, the most recent writing system in the world (Still 573 years old). A quick history fact about hangul is that it was made by King Sejong the Great. He made this as easy as possible to replace the Chinese characters that were used in Korea and to let anybody write. Also, Hangul could be written to make any pronunciation in a language (Some difficulty with some languages). Anyway, after seeing the simplicity and the pronunciation power of Hangul, the few members went back to their island and adopted their Hangul. It was very successful; about 75 % of students being fluent Hangul in at most 4 months. The Hangul is coming on great, but there is a problem, manpower. Due to many Korean leaving Bau-Bau to go back to Korea, there are only a few lefts. People are wanting more support, but it is not grabbing much attention.
