Leksikal Pemarkah Evidensial pada Bahasa Kualuh

Abstract

Bahasa Kualuh is a vernacular used as a medium of communication by the language community of Kualuh. Kualuh is a small region on the coast of Malacca. It is one part of North Sumatera Province, Indonesia. The majority population in Kualuh is Malay. They call their language, bahasa Kualuh or cakap Kualuh. This study aims at describing the lexical of evidential marks used by the language community of Bahasa Kualuh. Bahasa kualuh is grouped into Malay dialect repertoire. The data was utterances which expressed evidential marks which commontly exist in interpersonal interaction. The utterances obtained were from 6 native speakers as the informants. All of them were born in Kualuh, the range of the ages was from 35 to 45 years and they also married the locals.The indicator of the lexical of the evidential marks in this language evoke in two formulas. The first one is the quatative evidential mark based under the speaker judgment which is posited through the speaker cognition and is reported the result to the hearer. The mark is the lexical kotonyo. The second one is the sensory evidential mark which is related to the evident situation comes from human senses, they are the evidential of visual and non- visual and the evidential of auditory. The visual mark can be expressed by using the lexicals; manengok, tengok pandang, mamandang. The non-visual one is marked by the lexical; raso, piker, agak. The evidential of auditory is marked by the lexical; dongar and mandongar.