LANGUAGE INTERACTION, MAINTENANCE, AND LOSS IN MAKASSAR: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY
LANGUAGE INTERACTION, MAINTENANCE, AND LOSS IN MAKASSAR: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY

Summary/Abstract: Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi, contains a rare set of language contact and sociolinguistic language interaction occurrences. Although the Indonesian government has nationalized Bahasa Indonesia, several ethnic languages are still spoken. Nationalism is a “superordinate” and “ideologized” statement that aims to define a socio-ethnic identity. Nationalism unites and ideologizes multiethnic nations. Thus, Bahasa Indonesia is used to unite and shape the ideas of people from many different ethnic groups across Indonesia. However, in Makassar, ethnic languages are used to identify ethnic group membership. The city’s inhabitants often speak Makassarese, Makassar Malay, Bugis, and Selayarese languages. This study will highlight the sociolinguistic consequences of language contact in Makassar, such as language maintenance and loss, code-switching and code-mixing, as well as the phenomena of bilingualism and multilingualism. This work assumes that the adoption of Bahasa Indonesia as a national language did not consider the cultural conservatism of other ethnic languages.

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