DIGLOSSIA AND BILINGUALISM: CASE OF PAKPAK DAIRI LANGUAGE Dr. Ida Basaria, Parlindungan, Yulianus Harefa
UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA
Abstract
Diglosia is a situation of using two or more languages in a multicultural society.Diglosia almost happened to every nation in the world.The Indonesian nation which consists of various ethnic groups with various regional languages raises a language situation that is diglossic,the use of local languages and Indonesian in different social situations.With this diglossia, it is hoped that there will be a complementary function between Indonesian in formal situations and the function of ethnic languages (PakpakDairi Language)in interactions between family members and in informal situations.Speakers of PakpakDairi Language are multilingual speakers who master the PakpakDairi Language and Toba Language,besides Indonesian and English.This multilingualism requires speakers of PakpakDairi Language to be able to choose these languages in their social interactions.This language attitude will be seen in the perspective of diglossia.By using an ethnographic sociolinguistic approach, PakpakDairi language retention can be analyzed through the perception of the people,the speakers^ loyalty to Pakpak Dairi language.This study concludes that there has been deterioration in PakpakDairi language due to a situation of ignorance where Indonesian has seeped into everyday use in the realm of households and families.
Keywords: diglossia, language attitudes, sociolinguistic ethnography
