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Sambas language is the daily language except in the
context of education where formal Indonesian
language is preferred.
Furthermore, the language preservation is a
situation where a linguistic community can maintain
or continue to use its language from generation to
generation, although there is a condition that could
assign to switch to another language (Jendra, 2010).
In maintaining a language, this linguistic community
refuses to use another language. There are several
factors that affect the situation in language
perseverance such as a large number of language
users; the concentration of the inhabitants; identity
and cultural pride; the best economic condition
(Jendra, 2010). We can conclude that Chinese
people in Singkawang take all these factors to
maintain their integrity. So it is almost impossible to
eliminate the Khek language in Singkawang due to
the loyalty of users of this language. The way they
can socialize without losing their integrity is by
accommodating their communication, whether in
convergence or divergence form.
4 CONCLUSIONS
The communication accommodation is a theory in
sociolinguistics that aims to explain why people
change their words, or why they become more or
less similar with the partners in conversations. Based
on the discussion provided previously, the Chinese
in Singkawang accommodate the Khek language
with Malay or Indonesian language through
convergence and divergence to gain social
acceptance and avoid multi-ethnic conflict. One can
see that the Chinese people keep their mother tongue
well as an identity but they also try to adapt to the
other languages.
As part of the accommodation, Singkawang
Chinese people use the language of Malay and
Indonesia language with a Chinese accent in their
social interaction with other ethnic groups. For
example when the Malay goes to the Chinese store.
The Chinese tries to speak using the local language
but also with the Chinese accent.
Social contact involves two or more different
ethnic groups. Thus, it is essential that all social
actors should make sufficient cultural solidarity to
support harmony between them. If social adaptation
is strong (through linguistic adaptation), this will
form conditions of harmony. But on the contrary, if
social adaptation is weak, the condition will not be
harmonious. To describe this phenomenon, we may
observe the accommodation of culture and language
in Chinese people in Singkawang in general.
Conclusion from all data provided in this study, the
Chinese people are still Chinese even if they were
born and lived in Singkawang. They maintain their
culture and language and adapt well with another
ethnic. We also hope that the next research will talk
about accommodation in particular and more
specific in dealing with the linguistic point of view
(dialects).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The writer would like to thank everyone who has
contributed to the realization of this research.
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