LEXICAL CHANGE OF JAVANESE LANGUAGE IN DELI SERDANG REGENCY

This qualitative research addresses the lexical change in Javanese language, which is aimed at (1) investigating the lexical change types, (2) describing the lexical change patterns, and (3) explaining the lexical change reasons of Javanese language in Deli Serdang Regency. The empirical materials were thoroughly and well-gathered from the document and interview. The highly critical and systematic analysis with ‘Miles and Huberman Model’ reveals that Javanese language in Deli Serdang Regency changes. This research has drawn the following conclusions. Firstly, the lexical changes of Javanese language in Deli Serdang Regency comprised lexical loss divided into: Phonetic Attrition, Semantic change included Diachronic Semantic, and lexical creation consist of: External Borrowing included Dialectal Borrowing and Archaism. Secondly, the patterns of lexical change of Javanese language in Deli Serdang Regency has been manifested on three types (1) lexical loss: (a) vocal sound change comprised sound /u/ change into /o/, sound /i/ changed into sound /e/ and sound /o/ changed into sound /u/ (b) consonant sound change included: sound /t/ changed into sound /n/, sound /ny/ changed into sound /c/; (2)semantic change: (a) Verb to Verb, (b) Verb to Noun, (c) Verb to Adjective, (d) Noun to Noun, (e) Noun to Adjective, (f) Noun to Adverb, (g) Noun to Verb, (h) Noun to Pronoun, (i) Adjective to Adjective, (j) Adjective to Noun, (k) Adjective to Adverb, (l) Adjective to Verb, (m) Pronoun to Pronoun, (n) Pronoun to Adjective, (o ) Adverb to Noun, (p) Preposition to Adjective, (q) Preposition to Adverb, (r) Conjunction to Conjunction, (s)Preposition to Preposition, (3) lexical creation: (a) external creation comprised Dialectal borrowing and archaism. Thirdly, the reasons of lexical changes of Javanese language in Deli Serdang Regency were linguistic causes, historical, environmental causes and psychological causes. According to the data analysis, it was found that there are totally 903 lexical change namely: Phonetic Attrition: 359 lexicons (39,75%), Diachronic Change: 148 lexicons (16,38%), Dialectal Borrowing: 179 lexicons (19,82%), Archaism: 217 lexicons (24,03%).