Abstract
Before having consistent alphabetic writing system, Bahasa Indonesia had encountered several developments in orthographic enhancement. Bahasa Indonesia need to be enhanced for several reasons such as to create national identity and also to provide an ideal spelling system. Orthography system helps the language user to associate the symbol, sound, and meaning. For those reasons, the spelling system is important in written language since most of information and knowledge are preserved in written form. As time passes, there is almost no barrier in human interaction since the distance is narrowed by the technology. To use it efficiently, the language users utilize their language to be shorter but it is easier to understand. However, it creates discrepancy in the orthography system which hinders the interlocutor to get the actual meaning of the written language. This article reveals an issue about orthography system which is made by internet society in which has unusual alphabetic spelling system. The peculiarity is caused by psychological and social factor which revert the spelling model to be identical to children (immature speech).
Highlights
As a lingua franca, Bahasa Indonesia (BI) is medium to unify the nation since Indonesia consists of 742 languages and 1340 tribes
Bahasa Indonesia need to be enhanced for several reasons such as to create national identity and to provide an ideal spelling system
The present study focused on observing the use of Bahasa Indonesia, especially orthographic aspect which was done by social networking sites (SNS) users
Summary
Bahasa Indonesia (BI) is medium to unify the nation since Indonesia consists of 742 languages and 1340 tribes. For those reasons, Bahasa Indonesia becomes national identity. Bahasa had undergone several orthographic development and revision which was started from Van Ophuijsen’s spelling system till enhanced spelling system which had been accepted based on presidential decree num 57. Year 1972 (Karyati, 2016). Those spelling systems have their own characteristics which tell us that in Bahasa had several inconsistent orthographic elements. Under those circumstances, it had been revised
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