Minangkabau Language Mapping Verification in West Sumatra Province

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211226.056How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Minangkabau Language; Verification of Language Mapping; Language Usage; Dialectology

Abstract

The use of language has differences depending on geographical conditions and the surrounding environment. This is due to the use of language like waves so that language changes or variations are unavoidable. What’s more, the presence of different language contacts makes changes or variations of the language also different. One example of an interesting language in terms of language use is the Minangkabau language. In this case, the Minangkabau language in West Sumatra Province has a wide area of language usage and many borders with other provinces. In addition, the differences in the results of the Minangkabau language research in West Sumatra Province also add to the attractiveness of further research efforts as verification of the various findings. In connection with that matter, verification of Minangkabau language mapping in West Sumatra Province is important. It aims to see the limits of the use of the Minangkabau language in the form of maps and to compare the data according to the closest distance between the observation areas. This study uses a dialectological approach with quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative method is based on dialectometric calculations, while the qualitative method is based on the analysis of the dialectometry calculations. The data compared in this study is the result of language mapping from the Language Center of West Sumatra Province with 400 vocabularies as a list of questions. The observation area chosen in this study is the area of the use of the Minangkabau language which has a both different dialects and new areas that have not been compared from previous studies. The addition of new observation areas for comparison in this study is the Lunang isolect in Pesisir Selatan Regency and the Sungai Limau isolect in Dharmasraya Regency. As a result, the Minangkabau language only has two dialects, namely the Agam-Tanah Datar dialect and Pancung Soal dialect with the percentage of dialectometry calculation results of 51-80%. The Agam-Tanah Datar dialect consists of the Payakumbuh, Limapuluh Kota, Pangkalan Koto Baru, Pasaman, and Tarung-Tarung Rao sub-dialects, while the Pancung Soal dialect consists of the Koto Baru, Dharmasraya, and Lunang sub-dialects. The sub-dialect classification can be seen from the results of the 31-50% dialectometry calculation.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rita Novita
AU  - Winci Firdaus
AU  - Satwiko Budiono
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/27
TI  - Minangkabau Language Mapping Verification in West Sumatra Province
BT  - Proceedings of the International Congress of Indonesian Linguistics Society (KIMLI 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 284
EP  - 291
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211226.056
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211226.056
ID  - Novita2021
ER  -