THE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE OF HOKKIEN CHINESE IN KOTA LANGSA

This study deals with the language maintenance of Hokkien Chinese Kota Langsa. This study aimed to (1) identify the factors which effect Hokkien Chinese maintenance in Kota Langsa. (2) find out way the speakers have to maintan their native language. (3) find out the reason speakers og Hokkien chinese maintain their language.It employs qualitative research design. The participants of this study are 50 Hokkien Chinese people that are Sex(male and female), parents at the age of25 -50 years old (as second generation) 25 person,and then the second group are childrens st the age of 7– 14 years old (as a third generations) 25 person, the researcher were used data collection by giving 20 questionaire to get information or data from parent and 5 questions in interview to get information from children related to factors in maintaining Hokkien Chinese language. The data were analyzedby Miles, Hubberman`s and Saldana’s(2014:12) interactive model. The results of the research found that (1) the factors which supportedHokkien Chinese maintenance in Kota Langsa were left together and see each other frequently, use of the language in family domain(intramarriage and intermarriage), use of the language in neighborhood domain, use of the language in religion domain. (2) strategies of language maintenance are maintain their language by habitually used Hokkien Chinese language in daily communication, living together family member and relatives made Hokkien Chinese language as their home language. Considering the Hokkien Chinese as an important symbol of Chinese identity, (3) the reason speaker of Hokkien Chinese maintain their language they are proud their language, to express their identity as Hokkien Chinese ethnic, to achieved self pride as a chinese, to showed their uniquenessand diversity compare to another ethnic.