KARONESSE INTERFERENCE IN INDONESIAN AS THE REFLECTION OF KARONESSE MAINTENANCE

Abstract

People in Indonesia mostly master either Indonesian as their national language or their indigenous language as their mother tongue. Both language contacts give an impact of language phenomena, for instance bilingualism, diglossia, code switching and mixing, interference, divergence, convergence, language maintenance and shift. Those who live in diglossia situation are called bilingualism because of their ability to master at least two languages. The ability to use two languages raises interference of local language in Indonesian when the people make a speech. This research tries to observe the interference of Karonesse in Indonesian by Batak Karo students from Brastagi, North Sumatera. The methods of data collection are both observing and in-depth interview to the Batak Karo native people. This study tries to reveal language aspects that “interfere” the Indonesian by Batak Karo students during their speech. The result shows that Batak Karo students keep maintaining their Karonesse in Indonesian. These language maintenances are reflected in all language aspects, such as lexicon, phonology, morphology, and syntax.