A guide fo planning the future of our language as an alternative for measuring language vitality: the case of Ngaju [NIJ], an LWC in Central Kalimantan  

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Simanjuntak, Tiar Adam

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 15 : Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Kelima Belas, page 194-198.
Topik: language vitality; GPFOL; EGIDS; speech community; community-based language planning
Fulltext: 194-198 (Tiar Simanjuntak-OK).pdf (579.11KB)

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Many languages with large speaker populations in Indonesia are facing the serious problem of becoming endangered (Abtahian et al 2016) as their vitality gets weaker and weaker. One of the reasons for this language shift is perceived to be the pervasiveness of the national language or other dominant languages of wider communication (LWCs). This appears to be the case with Ngaju [nij], an LWC spoken by most people living in Central Kalimantan. Recent research and community-based language planning efforts among Ngaju speakers made use of a community discussion tool called A Guide for Planning the Future of Our Language (GPFOL) (Hanawalt et al 2015). Ngaju, once spoken by around 500,000 people before the 1990s (Mihing 1990) and now soaring up to around 890,000 speakers is placed at EGIDS level 3, (Wider communication) in the Ethnologue (Simons & Fennig 2017; cf. Lewis & Simons 2015). Our survey results reveal, however, that intergenerational transmission patterns in Ngaju are more like EGIDS level 6b, Threatened, despite the use of Ngaju as an LWC. What has happened? And how does GPFOL help us come to this conclusion? This paper will address these two questions.

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