Javanese Language Maintenance at Dieng’s Dreadlock Hair Cutting Tradition to Support Banjarnegara Local Tourism

Wiwiek Sundari

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202131702012

Abstract

Language is human creation representing a complex system of thought and practice. It can be history when the speakers stop using it and pass it into the next generation. To maintain it, speakers should keep using it as their cultural identity and part of their civilization. Tradition makes language continuously used throughout time. This research shows how the Javanese language is maintained through a tradition of cutting natural dreadlock hair of particular kids in Dieng to support local tourism, which is done by using folklore field research to get the data. The research shows that the local people use old and modern Javanese language in the ceremony as part of the language and culture maintenance.

Highlights

Language is human creation representing a complex system of thought and practice
Javanese language as part of Javanese culture was previously used as the primary communication tool among Javanese people in three levels of language politeness of Ngoko, Madya, Krama, Krama Inggil
Virtual field research is done by documenting the tradition in which the researcher took 2 research objects, old and modern Javanese languages, using the Purposive Sampling Technique [3] to show the Javanese language that Javanese people still use

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Introduction

Language is human creation representing a complex system of thought and practice It can be history when the speakers stop using it and pass it into the generation. Javanese and Indonesian people should be alert that globalization might threaten their culture by switching, shifting and replacing the old and traditional with the new and modern one that makes the culture becomes history, exposed to their descendants in manuscript and museum. This research shows how Dieng people in Banjarnegara maintain Javanese culture and language by keeping the tradition of cutting the natural dreadlock hair of particular kids in Dieng. Only a limited number of Javanese people, the young generation, understand and speak the Javanese language and its three language politeness levels. Javanese people may change their attitude toward their own language as a result of the political, economic and social changes reducing culture and language value, usage and respect [1]

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