Pemertahanan dan Revitalisasi Bahasa Lubu Siladang

Abstract

The research “Maintanance and Revitalization of Indegenous Language of Bahasa Lubu Siladang” is as efforts to develop, preserve and maintain the language of BLS, which is experiencing the language shift and threats to the stage of the endangered language as the domination of BM. Both quantitative and qualitative method are applied to explore the stage of the language threats of BLS by collecting data through observasation, survey, questionnaire, interviews, documentation and video shooting. The threats and language shift of BLS are diagnosed through the language profeciency and bilingualism of Lubu Siladang ‘etnich, the domains of BLS usage and the language attitude.

Several findings of this research are (1) language proficiency of BLS for elderly, adult people, and tenagers of Lubu Siladang etnichdecrease 68%, (2) a drastically decrease happens in the group of tenager at Aek Banir village (75%) and Sipapaga village (80%), (2) the frequency of BS usage decreases in almost of the domains of language use, particularly in the domains of tradition (82%), social (85%), intimacy (86%), education (78%), and government (87%). The low of BLS usage happens becauseSiladang etnich has been begining to be anxious to use BLS, but prefer to use BM, (3) there is 85%, a negative tendentious behaviour is among Siladang ethnic to their mother tangue, especially the group of tenagers who perceive BM has higher status than BLS, and (4) BLS undergoes the threats until the stage of 5,6,7 and based the threats and endangered language indicators.

‘Some efforts are taken to revitalise BLS as preventive ways to prevent the extinction of BLS and to facilitate the intergenartion transmission process of BLS and the culture of Lubu Siladang in terms of formal and informal actions. Revitalization in terms of formal is to propose BLS to be a local material of the school’s curriculum. This effort is actualised by training teachers the ways to teach folk stories of Lubu Siladang ethnicat two primary schools and making @ compition to write a short story and old poetry (pantun) for the primary students. Revitalization in terms of nonformal is undertaken by collecting 50 leamers (elderly, adult and tenagers) to be taught by ‘tokoh adat’ in ways of holding the process of Lubu Siladang ethnic weding ceremony. All respondents give positive response (90%) to the revitalization programs either at Sipapaga village or Ack Banir village.