South Korean scholars test their alphabet on Indonesian schoolchildren

In Indonesia, thousands of children are being taught Korean letters for the first time. This group of people, called the Cia-Cia, have hitherto had no form of written language at all, and everything in their culture has been spoken and then passed down from generation to generation. They are being taught by a group of Korean scholors, who are using them as a test group if you will. If the Cia-Cia are able to learn the written language, the scholors will then work on spreading the alphabet to many other populations with no written language system. The group has agreed to this in an effort to preserve their language. Many adults in the culture are able to speak their native tounge fluently, but younger ones are more apt to speak Indonesian.

By Nick Cramer

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/south-korea/090917/south-korean-scholars-try-out-their-alphabet-tiny-island-indonesia