Common Substitute Words used in daily Communication in Sumenep Dialect

ABSTRACT

Indonesia is a big country that consists of many islands. It has various tribes and languages; each group has its own culture, costume, and language. One of the ethnic groups is Madurese. Madurese language as a local language in Indonesia that is spoken by people who lives in Madura island, more particularly in Four regency. Those are Bangkalan, Sampang, Pamekasan, and Sumenep. Madurese language is still alive and used in Sumenep. It seems raising the writer’s thought to know deeper about it, in this case Madurese language substitute words. Therefore, the writer is interested in writing this thesis under the title ،،Common Substitute Words Used in Daily Communication in Sumenep Dialect”. In studying Madurese language substitute words, the writer focuses on the characteristics, kinds, forms, and uses of Madurese language substitute words.

The writer limits this discussion on the characteristics, kinds, forms, and uses of Madurese language substitute words.The result of this study is hoped to be a useful reference for those who are going to study further about Madurese language, and also help for non-natives Madurese to understand about common substitute of Madurese language.

The writer used descriptive qualitative research. The structural analysis method is based on the phenomena which usually appear in daily activities, especially to the language that used by people that live in Bluto Kabupaten Sumenep. The writer choose observation and interview in way of gathering the data

After the data had been selected, and had been analyzed, the writer found out that there are four characteristics of Madurese language substitute words are they have two syllables, accentual, irregular derivation and inflection, tend to simplification. There are eight kinds and form of Madurese language substitute words. Those are:
a. Sengko ٦ engko ٦ ba ’na, hedah, ba’an, rowah, orengah, and na’kana ,na are used to substitute person.
b. -na engko’, ngandi\ ~na ba’an, and ~na/-a are used to possessive substitute.
c. se is used to relational substitute.
d. Ediyah, dissa', and koissa’ are used to substitute adverb of place.
e. Ba'ari', are sateya, lagguna, sateya, and deggi’ are used to substitute adverb of time,
f. reya, jarowah, and arowa are used to demonstrative substitute.
g. Sapa, apa, da 'ramma, and sekemma are used to interrogative substitute.
h. Anu, pa’apa, andpasapa are used to unmentioned thing substitute.
i. Opposite, indirect and descriptive substitute are used to semantic substitute.
Finally the writer hopes this research will be useful for everyone who needs it.