Language Attitude toward Vernacular Language Use: A Case of Jakarta

Abstract

Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia that has multilingual community. Even though Jakarta is multiethnic, the use of Bahasa Indonesia has the dominant role as a national and official language. Mostly, Jakarta inhabitants use it even they have their vernacular language. That condition emerges the question on the vernacular language use in Jakarta. Considering from 746 vernacular languages in Indonesia, 296 suspected disappeared or in endangered state. It was required to investigate the language attitude across three generations of Jakarta inhabitants towards vernacular language use. This study applied qualitative approach with in-depth interview, observation and questionnaire from fifteen participants consisted of parents as the first generation, children as the second generation and grandchildren as the third generation. The study gave the deep understanding on three generation language attitudes toward their language vernacular use in their daily life in Jakarta context.

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“…Indonesia has more than 1000 ethnicities with around 700 vernacular languages (Agustina et al, 2019;Lan, 2011;Welianto, 2020). Among those ethnics and language diversities, Bahasa Indonesia become the national language either as the first or the second language (Paauw, 2009;Ravindranath, 2014).…”

“…Researches about the influence of Bahasa Indonesia to vernacular languages have emerged amongst Indonesian linguists. Agustina et al (2019) conducted a study regarding the language attitude towards vernacular Indonesian in Jakarta. She focuses on showing how language shift happens among the second and third generation of newcomers in Jakarta.…”

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“…This can provide researchers with deeper insights into the causes of suicide and potential ways to reduce it within the specific cultural and linguistic context of rural primary school learners (Thorsson et al, 2018). Learners may be more inclined to provide honest and genuine responses when they are comfortable with the language used in the questionnaire, leading to a more accurate representation of their experiences and perspectives (Agustina et al, 2019)…”