Korean script for Cia-Cia

[Christopher Sundita]

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
I see a photo of the book they published: http://photo-media.daum-img.net/200908/06/yonhap/20090806063009295.jpg   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.  
 
--Chris Sundita


--- On Fri, 8/7/09, John Ulrich Wolff <juw1 at cornell.edu> wrote:


From: John Ulrich Wolff <juw1 at cornell.edu>
Subject: [An-lang] Korean script for Cia-Cia
To: an-lang at anu.edu.au
Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 7:01 AM


Re: John Bowden's citation of the article in the Jakarta Globe about 
the Korean script to transcribe Cia-Cia.  Does anyone know how 
adequate  the Korean script is to transcribe Cia-Cia?
John Wolff
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