Gorontalo and Arabic Morphology: A Contrastive Analysis to Ease Language Learning and Translation

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10.2991/978-2-38476-142-5_37How to use a DOI?

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Gorontalo-Arabic Morphology; Contrastive Analysis; Foreign Language Learning; Translation

Abstract

As a foreign language, Arabic has an interesting morphological system to study when compared to Gorontalo language. Even though Gorontalo is only a regional language, the influence of Arabic is significant. This can be seen in the large amount of Arabic vocabularies that has been absorbed into the Gorontalo language. Arabic has become the first foreign language to become a mandatory subject taught in Islamic education institutions, also the culture of the Gorontalo people is very attached to Islam and Arabic, so that the Koran has been translated into Gorontalo language. Arabic morphology has a system of derivational affixations and inflectional affixations. This research is a descriptive qualitative research through contrastive analysis, which aims to describe morphological phenomena between two languages (Gorontalo and Arabic) and compare them to facilitate language teaching and translation practice. This affixation gives rise to prefixes, infixes, suffixes and confixes. This affixation process will have an impact on word formation and the diversity of meanings. The affixation process in the Gorontalo language also has affixation, derivation, reduplication and compounding. The Gorontalo language affixes a total of 113 affixes which include 73 prefixes. 16 suffixes, 16 confixes and 8 infixes. Meanwhile, Arabic is known as al-ziyadahwhich consists of 10 abbreviated letters — divided into several types: the first is prefix (Antecedents), Suffix (suffix), Confix(double), infix (Padding).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nurul Aini N. Pakaya
AU  - Ibnu Rawandhy N. Hula
AU  - Chaterina Puteri Doni
AU  - Sriwahyuningsih R. Saleh
AU  - Dahlia Husain
AU  - Anggraeni M. S. Lagalo
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/17
TI  - Gorontalo and Arabic Morphology: A Contrastive Analysis to Ease Language Learning and Translation
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science and Education (ICoeSSE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 386
EP  - 394
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-142-5_37
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-142-5_37
ID  - Pakaya2023
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