BAHASA BANJAR: ITS VARIETIES AND CHARACTERISTICS (A CONCEPTUALDESCRIPTION OF BAHASA BANJAR IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS POINT OF VIEW)

Abstract

Indonesia is a country which consists of thousands of islands. One of those islands is Borneo or Kalimantan. Kalimantan is generally divided into four provinces, west, centre, south, and east province. Within those four provinces, occur many languages which are used by its citizen. One of the languages is Bahasa banjar which is mainly used by Banjarese people in south Kalimantan. Connected with the fact above this writings will be discussed about three points, the first is about the varieties of Bahasa banjar, which is seen from the sociolinguistics points of view, the second is about the characteristics of Bahasa banjar in general and the last is the characteristics on each varieties. Every description in this writing is a conceptual description only, every data which is given, and every statement which is given in this writing is only for the understanding of the description of Bahasa banjar.