10 Unique Features of Kupang-Malay language: A Language Spoken in Kupang – NTT Indonesia

Santri E. P. Djahimo

2018

Abstract

Every language in this world has uniqueness and particular features to become its identity. Kupang – Malay as one of the languages which is dominantly spoken by people in Kupang Municipality has its own unique features. This writing has attempted to trace and identify the 10 unique linguistic features of this language in order to show the richness and different varieties of languages in Indonesia, which are considered as the inheritance of Austronesian traits and grouped as the family of Austronesian languages. This writing has revealed 10 unique features of Kupang–Malay language which is spoken by people in Kupang Municipality (Kota Kupang) of East Nusa Tenggara Province (Propinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur). The data has been taken from written forms (local newspaper, Short Message Service, and various social media) and oral form (daily conversations). There are many particular features of Kupang–Malay language that make it unique and easy to identify, looking from the domains of morphology, phonology, syntax, and sociolinguistics. They are then classified into 10 under the classifications of (1) idiomatic expression, (2) prefix ba-, (3) prefix ta-, (4) reduplication, (5) word changing, omitting, and/or modifying, (6) loanwords, (7) clipping, (8) pronouns, (9) possessive (10) The use of particles ko, na, ma, tuh, and hang as complicated grammatical rules. This finding is not static as language itself changes over time. New people from new places with recent innovation can bring the changes to the language, especially on the vocabulary level. However, the basic patterns of this language will not be easily changed because they have become the particular identity of this

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Djahimo S. (2018). 10 Unique Features of Kupang-Malay language: A Language Spoken in Kupang – NTT Indonesia. In Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC, ISBN 978-989-758-416-9, pages 58-64. DOI: 10.5220/0008217700002284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{beltic18,
author={Santri E. P. Djahimo},
title={10 Unique Features of Kupang-Malay language: A Language Spoken in Kupang – NTT Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,},
year={2018},
pages={58-64},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008217700002284},
isbn={978-989-758-416-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,
TI - 10 Unique Features of Kupang-Malay language: A Language Spoken in Kupang – NTT Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-416-9
AU - Djahimo S.
PY - 2018
SP - 58
EP - 64
DO - 10.5220/0008217700002284