<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I am able to read/write Han'geul/Korean script and going by the words for the numbers 1-10 in Cia-Cia, it looks like that they're probably had to make some modifications in the script.</DIV>
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<DIV>For example, in Korean, the distinction between voiced and unvoiced consonants is not phonemic; instead it's aspirated & unaspirated (as well as "tense" sounds) When transliterating foreign words into Korean, voiced sounds are represented by the unaspirated letters and the unvoiced ones, the aspirate ones.</DIV>
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<DIV>Looking at the words for 4 (pa'a) and 6 (no'o), I wouldn't know how they would write a glottal stop in Han'geul.</DIV>
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<DIV>Also, it looks like /r/ and /l/ are sounds in Cia-Cia, however in Han'geul they are written with the same letter. Korean has both sounds, but only in allophonic variation.</DIV>
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<DIV>I see a photo of the book they published: <A href="http://photo-media.daum-img.net/200908/06/yonhap/20090806063009295.jpg">http://photo-media.daum-img.net/200908/06/yonhap/20090806063009295.jpg</A> It says "bahasa cia-cia" on the cover. I think "bahasa" looks right, but I wonder why they wrote "cia-cia" with the letters they did. </DIV>
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<DIV>--Chris Sundita</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 8/7/09, John Ulrich Wolff <I><juw1@cornell.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: John Ulrich Wolff <juw1@cornell.edu><BR>Subject: [An-lang] Korean script for Cia-Cia<BR>To: an-lang@anu.edu.au<BR>Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 7:01 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Re: John Bowden's citation of the article in the Jakarta Globe about <BR>the Korean script to transcribe Cia-Cia. Does anyone know how <BR>adequate the Korean script is to transcribe Cia-Cia?<BR>John Wolff<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>An-lang mailing list<BR><A href="http://us.mc634.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=An-lang@anu.edu.au" ymailto="mailto:An-lang@anu.edu.au">An-lang@anu.edu.au</A><BR><A href="http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/an-lang" target=_blank>http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/an-lang</A><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>