PROTO LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION OF DUANO ETHNIC AT SABAK REGENCY Diana Rozelin, Mailinar, Ulfatmi Azlan, Louisiana Muliawati
UIN Sulthan Thaha Saifuddin Jambi
Abstract
The position of Duano Isolect that included to endangered language showed a shift in vocabulary. Innovations were found at young generation and relics at the older generation. This problem resulted that Duano isolect being the second language under Malay language.The purpose of the research were to find out the proto language of Duano ethnic from Sabak, words shift, and words maintenance and to find out the ways of Duano educate their children in preserving their mother tongue in Sabak. The kind of research used qualitative and quantitative, for collecting data used observation, interview, documentation, and recording. The result were (1) The proto language of Duano ethnic in Sabak was divided into two kinds, they were shift and maintenance. The wordlist of Swadesh (200 basic words) from four infotmants through cognate were First informant 49% data, Second informant 49% data, Third informant 51.5% data, and Fourth informant 49.5% data. The highest maintenance or relic of proto language would be found at the third informant 11%- and the highest of shift or innovation was the first informant. She got 90% fom 200 wordlist. (2) The Duano^s parents used traditional education in educating their children in preserving their mother tongue. This situation happens because of shame, countrified, adaptation to Malay, and intermarriage.
Keywords: Dialectology, Education, Duano, Proto Language
