OLD JAVANESE ELEMENTS IN BANYUMAS JAVANESE AS A FORM OF LANGUAGE RETENTION

Abstract

This research aims to describe Old Javanese Elements that still exist in The language of the Banyumas Javanese. Banyumas Javanese experiences language retention so that there are several Old Javanese elements in the Banyumas Javanese language. This research uses qualitative approach where the data will not be shown in numeric. Collecting Data method uses “Padan†method where the Determinant Instrument is throughout the language of the research object. The source of the Data of old Javanese are from  the book of Old Javanese text, Old Javanese grammar, Old Javanese story etc. The data of Banyumas Javanese are taken from Banyumas Javanese dialect that is commonly Spoken in Banyumas regency. The result of this research shows that there are four Old Javanese elements that experience retention in Banyumas Javanese dialect. Those elements are in phonology (there is “/a/†phoneme), in morphology (there is “-aken†suffix), in lexicon (there is the word “katonâ€) and in the third singular person pronoun (there is “siraâ€).