This is My Writing Essay

The Power of Local Language

                  

Abstract

          In the world, there are so many local language, but now, there are so many little local language speaker. I think the factor is from family, parents doesn’t teach their child to speak local language. They teach their children to speak national language, so the local language speaker more and more little. But national language also comes from mother tongue. Indonesian national language is from Melayu and Melayu is local language from Sumatra. So, that’s way I want to write about local language because I think  learn about local language is interesting.        

 Human can’t live alone. They have to make interaction with another human, and to make interaction, we need medium, its language. Language is the first element of seven universal element culture. Language has many definition, and this is some definition of  language. Harimurti Kridalaksana in Pesona Bahasa, Langkah Awal Memahami Linguistik (2005) ‘’ Language is sound mark tools that generally to use for certain society group members when they are teamwork, communication and identify itself.  So, language is sound that has system in order to facilitate the speaker when they speak. If language just  sound and doesn’t has system I think of course we can’t speak with another people because they don’t understand what do we mean.

a.       Harun Rasyid, Mansyur & Suratno (2009: 126) ‘’language is free structure and  meaning from user, as mark that can conclude the aim’’.

b.      According to (Depdiknas,2005: 3) in a truth language  is mind’s utterance and disciplinary human feeling which use sound to be its tool.

So, Language is utterance of human feeling and the structure or grammar up to the founder of it, and the goal is to communicate with other people.

            There are two kinds of language, its oral language and written language. Initially, language comes from oral language. Oral language used when we communicate with another people and usually direct. Written language like symbol, picture and letter. Commonly, the function of  language is :

1.      For expression.

2.      For communication.

3.      For held integration and social adaptation.

I ever hear that if language more and more difficult mean that area that the language comes from, has high civilization.

Language is dynamic and always develop. So, now, we know about local and modern language, but in this occasion,I am going to tell about local language. Local language is mother tongue and usually each area has mother tongue, and each mother tongue has rules. For example Javanese rules, according to the informant (Javanese people) Javanese language has 4 levels, they are Ngoko, Kromo, Kromo Alus (Inggil) and Keraton, because Javanese if we speak Javanese, its depend on the level of someone who speak with us. The first, we use Ngoko if we speak with our friends because Ngoko in Java is the impolite one. So, don’t speak Ngoko with our parents or teacher. For example koen, but some of Javanese people usually use sampeyan to speak with their friends in order to give respect to them. The meaning of koen is you. East Java popular use Ngoko, but not all, there people from east Java use Kromo to speak. The second is Kromo, what is Kromo? Kromo is one level up from Ngoko, so this level more polite than Ngoko. Usually we use this level to speak with our senior, because in Java if we speak with our senior we have to speak polite. For example Sampeyan. Sampeyan is one level up of koen. The third is Kromo Inggil, we use this level to speak with our parents and our teacher, because if we speak with our parents or our teacher we must be polite. For example panjenengan, its two level up of koen and its more polite than sampeyan. The last is Keraton, this level use to speak in Keraton or Palace, but if we are not keraton member or we can’t speak Kromo Inggil we can speak by national language (Indonesian) or Javanese but polite level.

We can speak All of Javanese levels in East Java and Central Java, we can’t use its in West Java because although they are in one island but Central Java and East Java have difference tribe and pronunciations, in East Java and Central Java, the vowel A red by O, but in West Java still red by A. But, the writing sometimes has agreement. For example limalas, in East Java and Central Java the pronunciations is Limolas and West Java still limalas, but it has the same meaning, its fifth teen. According to Harimurti Kridalaksana ‘’ unique is one of language characteristic, so limolas and limalas has each uniqueness that come from one island. Language can show where the speaker comes, like there are someone who say Asmanipun panjenenengan sinten? Of course we know that the speaker comes from Java, especially East Java or Central Java. So, I think local language has important thing that can show us about some identity of the speaker. Not only Javanese language but also there are so many local language in our beloved nation. In Indonesia there are for about more than three hundred local language, but only some of them which familiar in Indonesia like Javanese and Madurese. Sometimes, we are not only study about our own local language, I mean local language in Indonesia, but study about local language from other country. For example Japanese, in Japanese rules, as I know  how to say something that it our own and other people own, it has difference. For example my mother in Japanese is watashi no haha, but if you say your mother, if you say anata no haha its false. The correct sentence is anata no oka san. Most of Japanese letter especially Kanji is taken from nature. We can learn about local language from our country or abroad. Learn about local language from our country to keep our heritage, its language.

Conclusion

Learn about local language from another country to add our knowledge about local language. From the fact that young people like to learn and study about local language from another country. They think that its more impressive than they have to study local language from their nation, I think that we can speak and know well about both of them, its impressive. I think parents have to teach their children about local language since they were child.  Learn about national language and local language are important. In Indonesia there are so many local language, and to unite all of them we need national language, its Indonesian.

           

           

           

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            Authors : ( Kridalaksana, Pesona Bahasa, Langkah Awal Memahami Linguistik. 2005 )