Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019)

Phonological Changes of Place Names in Java

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I Dewa Putu Wijana
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I Dewa Putu Wijana
Available Online August 2019.
DOI
10.2991/prasasti-19.2019.26How to use a DOI?
Keywords
sound change; place nam;, borrowing, language extinction
Abstract

This paper is intended to describe various types of phonological changes which constitute one of important causes for the Javanese speakers failing to identify the meaning of several place names which exist in their surroundings despite the rare use of Old Javanese, Sanskrit, and other foreign borrowings. The phonological changes include sound deletion, sound substitution, sandhi, and sound addition. The interpretation failures are actually an overt indication of the decline use of Javanese among its younger speakers because this local language cannot compete with Indonesian, the national language, and other much more powerful foreign languages. Accordingly the Javanese teaching for the younger generation should be whipped up in order to maintain its existence, and avoid this language from extinction.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
August 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-775-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/prasasti-19.2019.26How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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