Abstract
Culture is system of idea and act as a result of human creation. A culture becomes history when their community leave it. A language, as part of culture, becomes dead when a speech community leave it. Preserving culture and language is important to keep our identity and civilization. This research shows how Javanese speech community keep their use of Javanese to maintain their culture in Northern Semarang as Javanese environment by taking the data from Junior Highschool students. The result shows that most of them still maintain Javanese, especially the lowest level of Javanese (Ngoko) to talk to their friend in casual situation. Few of them understand the highest level of Javanese (Krama) to honor the older. They are also able to write and read Javanese letters since it is taught as a school subject with local content. Javanese language and culture maintenance is supported by the local government to promote Semarang tourism industry to gain more benefit for the local people and the local government. Preserving culture by maintaining the language must be supported by the environment by using it in daily conversation and teaching it in school to make the young generation understand and use the language.
Highlights
Culture is a whole system of idea, act and a result of human creation in their social life [1]
This research dicussed how the young generation of Javanese people as a billingual of Javanese and Indonesian languages maintain the use of the Javanese language in their speech community supported by their language environment (Northern Semarang District) that serves as a part of Javanese culture preservation in Central Java
By applying descriptive-qualitative methods, this research is aimed at revealing the Javanese language maintenance -both spoken and written- (Ngoko, Madya, and Krama levels along with the letters and numbers) of fourty students (Grade VII) from two State and two Private Junior Highschools in Northern Semarang District as Javanese language environment as the data source which were taken by using Random Sampling Technique [8]
Summary
Culture is a whole system of idea, act and a result of human creation in their social life [1]. One of human culture resulted from learning process is language It is learned through daily conversation at home in the language speech community supported by the language environment. Culture is a whole knowledge of human being as social creature that were used to understand their environment and life experience which is served as a guidance of their behavior and act [2]. With their ability and competence, human being is able to develop various systems of act to fullfil their daily need that must be learned and customized since birth to get the highest performance and the best result
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