Local Wisdom of the Javanese Language and Culture of Orang Samin, Blora Regency: An Ethnolinguistic Study

DOI

10.2991/icalc-18.2019.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

local wisdom, Orang Samin, Ethnolinguistics, language, sikep brotherhood

Abstract

This study aims to describe 1) the background which affects the local wisdom in the Javanese language and culture of Orang Samin community from the Ethnolinguistics point of view, (2) the types of local wisdom in the Javanese language and culture of Samin, and (3) the differences of the local wisdom in the standard use of Javanese language by Samin community. This study employed participant observation techniques.The results of this study include (1) Background affecting the local wisdom of Orang Samin related to Samin religion, an understanding of God, tradition of sikep, their views on education, farming system, economic problems, marriage, circumcision, death, trade, daily trait, and terms that they use in the life activities. (2) Types of the Orang Samin’s local wisdom encompass the choice of worshipping the God, the attitude towards the concept of sikep brotherhood, their language use, understanding of education, the concept of agriculture, economy, marriage, death, circumcision, trade, creation of Samin’s special terms and Samin’s life guidance. (3) The difference between the Orang Samin’s local wisdom in the Javanese language and culture from the standard and common Javanese to the traditions and Cultural Semantics of Samin. The difference on the language of Samin lays on its similarity with the Northern coast of Javanese dialect which is phonetically characterized by [Oh], [Eh], morpheme {-em} (common use of Javanese language {-mu}), and particle/IEh/. Specifically, among the diffences ranging from the phonological, morphological, lexical, dialect, sentence structure that reflects the strategy of Samin in scraping out from outsiders. (4) The local wisdoms of Orang Samin conceptually are elaborated into subdivided discussions including the cultural wisdom, spiritual wisdom, economic wisdom, social wisdom, strategic wisdom.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wakit Abdullah Rais
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Local Wisdom of the Javanese Language and Culture of Orang Samin, Blora Regency: An Ethnolinguistic Study
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Arts, Language and Culture (ICALC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 260
EP  - 265
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icalc-18.2019.37
DO  - 10.2991/icalc-18.2019.37
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