Detail Indigenous Languages in Indonesia: Diversity and Endangerment   Oleh:  Lauder, Allan Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: Kongres Linguistik Nasional XII Surakarta, 3-6 September 2007: Kumpulan Makalah Ringkas, page 9-10. Fulltext: 78b. Allan Lauder-ML.pdf (528.13KB) Ketersediaan Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 406 MLI 2007 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 1) Tandon: tidak ada    Reserve Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel It is not hard to get a picture of just how linguistically diverse Indonesia is. There are 726 languages in the country, making it the world’s second most diverse, after Papua New Guinea which has 823. (Grimes, 2000), (Martí et al., 2005: 48). It also has a high ratio of languages to speakers. If Great Britain had the same number of indigenous spoken languages to population as Indonesia, it would have 42,500 native languages. Diversity is the outcome of processes of language change (Lass, 1997), (Nettle, 1999), (Schendl, 2001). The loss of language is itself a process that will logically result in monolingualism. It is not uncommon to find the attitude among the general public and even among some Indonesian linguists that the process of language endangerment or language death is not something that needs worried about, that it is part of a natural process that should be left to take its course. This paper suggests otherwise. The smaller regional languages may remain relatively unstudied, and unknown, but they are still worthy of our attention. It is argued here that their very diversity and the nature of that diversity represents something of value that should not be allowed to disappear. The paper puts forward a number of claims that have been made in favor of linguistic diversity. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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