Phonological Changes of Place Names in Java

DOI

10.2991/prasasti-19.2019.26How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sound change; place nam;, borrowing, language extinction

Abstract

This paper is intended to describe various types of phonological changes which constitute one of important causes for the Javanese speakers failing to identify the meaning of several place names which exist in their surroundings despite the rare use of Old Javanese, Sanskrit, and other foreign borrowings. The phonological changes include sound deletion, sound substitution, sandhi, and sound addition. The interpretation failures are actually an overt indication of the decline use of Javanese among its younger speakers because this local language cannot compete with Indonesian, the national language, and other much more powerful foreign languages. Accordingly the Javanese teaching for the younger generation should be whipped up in order to maintain its existence, and avoid this language from extinction.

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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  - I Dewa Putu Wijana
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - Phonological Changes of Place Names in Java
BT  - Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 159
EP  - 164
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/prasasti-19.2019.26
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