Cia-Cia language

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Cia-Cia
Butonese
Bahasa Ciacia
바하사 찌아찌아
بهاس چيا-چيا
Native toIndonesia
Region Baubau, Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi
Native speakers
79,000 (2005) [1]
Hangul (present)
Latin (present)
Gundhul (historical)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cia
Glottolog ciac1237
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Cia-Cia, also known as Buton or Butonese, is an Austronesian language spoken principally around the city of Baubau on the southern tip of Buton island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi, in Indonesia. [2] It is written using the Latin and Hangul scripts.

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Demographics

As of 2005, there were 80,000 speakers of Cia-Cia, [1] many of whom also use Wolio, which is closely related to Cia-Cia, as well as Indonesian. Wolio is falling into disuse as a written language among the Cia-Cia, as it is written using the Arabic script, and Indonesian is now taught in schools using the Latin script. [3] [ unreliable source? ]

A student writing in Cia-Cia on a whiteboard, using the hangul script. Cia-Cia.jpg
A student writing in Cia-Cia on a whiteboard, using the hangul script.

Cia-Cia has been privately taught to schoolchildren in the hangul script since 2008. The students are also taught some basic Korean. [4] The program remained active as of 2023. [5]

Geographic distribution

Cia-Cia is spoken in Southeast Sulawesi, south Buton Island, Binongko Island, and Batu Atas Island. [1]

According to legend, Cia-Cia speakers on Binonko descend from Butonese troops sent by a Butonese sultan. [6]

Name

The name of the language comes from the negator cia "no". It is also known as Buton, Butonese, Butung, and in Dutch Boetonees, names it shares with Wolio, and as South Buton or Southern Butung. [1]

Dialects

The language situation on the island of Buton is very complicated and not known in great detail. [7]

Dialects include Kaesabu, Sampolawa (Mambulu-Laporo), Wabula (with its subvarieties), and Masiri. [8] The Masiri dialect shows the greatest amount of vocabulary in common with the standard dialect. [1] The Pedalaman dialect uses gh—equivalent to r in other dialects—in native vocabulary, and r in loan words. [9] [ page needed ]

Phonology

Phonology according to Reve van den Berg (1991). [2]

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Postalveolar Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Stop voiceless p t t͡ʃ k ʔ
voiced b d d͡ʒ ɡ
implosive ɓ ɗ
Fricative s h
Approximant β l ( j )
Trill ( r )( ʁ )

Notes:

Vowels

Cia-cia has a common five-vowel system. [2] [10]

Front Back
Close i u
Mid e o
Open a

Orthography

Cia-Cia was once written in a Jawi-like script called Gundhul , based on Arabic, with five additional consonant letters but no signs for vowels.[ citation needed ]

Hangul

In 2009, residents of the city of Baubau set about adopting Hangul, the script for the Korean language, to write Cia-Cia. [11]

The mayor consulted the Indonesian government on the possibility of making the writing system official. [12] However, the project encountered difficulties between the city of Baubau, the Hunminjeongeum Society, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2011. [13] The King Sejong Institute, which had been established in Baubau in 2011 to teach Hangul to locals, abandoned its offices after a year of operation, in 2012; [14] it reopened them in 2022. [15] In December 2023, Agence France-Presse again published an article with interviews showcasing the Hangul effort. [5]

As of 2017, Hangul remains in use in schools and on local signs. [16]

In January 2020, the publication of the first Cia-Cia dictionary in Hangul was announced. It was published in 2022. [15] [17] [18] [ needs update ]

Cia-Cia Latin alphabet [4] [2] :306
ConsonantsVowels
IPA LatinIPALatin
/ɡ/g/a/a
/k/k/e/e
/n/n/o/o
/d/d/u/u
/ɗ/dh/i/i
/t/t
/ r ~ ʁ /r~gh
/l/l
/m/m
/b/b
/β/v~w
/ɓ/bh
/p/p
/s/s
/ʔ/
/ŋ/ng
//j
//c
/h/h
Cia-Cia Hangul alphabet[ citation needed ]
Consonants [19] Vowels [10]
IPA HangulIPAHangul
/ɡ//a/
/k//e/
/n//o/
/d//u/
/ɗ//i/
/t/(null)
/r/
/l/ [lower-alpha 1]
/m/
/b/
/β/
/ɓ/
/p/
/s/
/ʔ/
/ŋ/
//
//
/h/
/ʁ/
  1. ᄙ is not a separate letter. The medial /r/ and /l/ are distinguished by writing a single letter (ㄹ) for /r/ and double (ᄙ) for /l/. Double ㄹ must be written in two syllables. The final /l/ is written with a single letter ㄹ; for the final consonant /r/, the null vowel (ㅡ) is added. Null consonant and vowel letters (으) are added for initial /l/.[ citation needed ]

Examples

Words

Cia-Cia, like Muna, has three sets of numerals: a free form, a prefixed form, and a reduplicated form. [2] The prefixed form is used before units of 10 (pulu), 100 (hacu), and 1,000 (riwu), and before classifiers and measure nouns. The reduplicated form is used after units of ten when counting. ompulu is an irregular exception. [2]

Numerals [20] [2]
LatinHangul
1dise, ise디세, 이세
2rua, ghua루아
3tolu똘루
4pa'a빠아
5lima을리마
6no'o노오
7picu삐쭈
8walu, oaluᄫᅡᆯ루, 오알루
9siua시우아
10ompulu옴뿔루
29rua-pulu-po-picu
80walu-pulu

Sentences

An example of the Hangul script, followed by the Latin alphabet and IPA: [21] [22]

아디

Adi

aɗi

Adi.NOM

세링

sering

seriŋ

often

빨리

pali

pali

very

노논또

nononto

nononto

3R-watch

뗄레ᄫᅵ시.

televisi.

teleβisi

television.

아마노

Amano

amano

Father-3POS

노뽀옴바에

nopo'ombae

nopoʔomɓa.e

3R-tell-3DO

이아

ia

i.a

he

나누몬또

nanumonto

nanumonto

3IR-watch

뗄레ᄫᅵ시

televisi

teleβisi

television

꼴리에

kolie

koli.e

don't

노몰렝오.

nomolengo.

nomoleŋo.

3R-VM-long

아디 세링 빨리 노논또 뗄레ᄫᅵ시. 아마노 노뽀옴바에 이아 나누몬또 뗄레ᄫᅵ시 꼴리에 노몰렝오.

Adi sering pali nononto televisi. Amano nopo'ombae ia nanumonto televisi kolie nomolengo.

aɗi seriŋ pali nononto teleβisi amano nopoʔomɓa.e i.a nanumonto teleβisi koli.e nomoleŋo.

Adi.NOM often very 3R-watch television. Father-3POS 3R-tell-3DO he 3IR-watch television don't 3R-VM-long

Adi often watches television. His father advises him not to watch too much TV.

Reve van den Berg (1991) provides a few more examples. [2]

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References

Citations

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 van den Berg, Rene (1991). "Preliminary notes on the Cia-Cia language (South Buton)". Excursies in Celebes (PDF). Leiden: KITLV. pp. 305–324.
  3. Butonese – Orientation
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  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Numbers in Austronesian languages
  21. 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.
  22. Example is part of a textbook: Lee, Ho-Young; Hwang, Hyo-sung; Abidin (2009). 바하사 찌아찌아 1 [Bahasa Cia-Cia 1]. Hunmin jeongeum Society of Korea.

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