Research Article
Language Variations in Jayapura City: A Study of Dialectology
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-9-2021.2315616, author={Tengku Syarfina and Satwiko Budiono and Denny Adrian Nurhuda}, title={Language Variations in Jayapura City: A Study of Dialectology}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Democracy and Social Transformation, ICON-DEMOST 2021, September 15, 2021, Semarang, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICON-DEMOST}, year={2022}, month={2}, keywords={language variation; dialectology; language preservation}, doi={10.4108/eai.15-9-2021.2315616} }- Tengku Syarfina
Satwiko Budiono
Denny Adrian Nurhuda
Year: 2022
Language Variations in Jayapura City: A Study of Dialectology
ICON-DEMOST
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-9-2021.2315616
Abstract
The number of national infrastructure development programs in Jayapura City has an impact on the decline in the use of the local language. Starting from the construction of the Cross-Border Post (PLBN) for Skouw, the construction of the Youtefa red bridge, to the contruction of facilities and infrstructure for the XX National Olympic Week (PON). These various national infrastructure development programs have encouraged Jayapura City to have several new city icons. This is due to the results of infrstructure development are visited by many people and tourists and it creates tourist attraction in Jayapura City. In addition, this condition also creates high language contact and easier transportation accesss in Jayapura City, thus it can be affect the use of the local language. There were seven isolects compared in this study. There are two types of research methods, namely quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative method was obtained from dialectometric and etima calculations, while the qualitative method was gained from the analysis of 400 vocabularies used as a list of questions. As a result, there were seven regional languages in Jayapura City, namely Elseng, Kayo Pulau, Nafri, Nyaw, Skou, and Tobati. This result was obtained from dialectometric calculations >90% between isolects which indicated language differences. Thus, the seven language in Jayapura City urgently need language preservation efforts so that there is no shift, change, or language extinction.