Mike Edwards<p>This is super interesting. Hangul is an extremely easy alphabet to learn, and it has the range to cover a lot of phonemes, even outside of its Korean origin. (I've always thought it'd make a great script for a near-future scifi story, e.g. Belta in The Expanse.) But the Cia-Cia people of Indonesia, who until a decade or so ago lacked a written alphabet, have actually adopted it as their own script for an entirely distinct language<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/world/asia/indonesia-korea-hangul.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/11/04/world/a</span><span class="invisible">sia/indonesia-korea-hangul.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/korea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>korea</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/indonesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indonesia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/hangul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hangul</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a></p>