JAVANESE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AMONG THE JAVANESE TEENAGERS IN MEDAN-HELVETIA

This study was concerned with Javanese Language Maintenance among the Javanese Teenagers in Medan-Helvetia. The objective of this study were to find out the factors affect Javanese language maintenance preserved the Javanese teenagers in Medan-Helvetia, the ways of Javanese teenagers in maintaining Javanese language, and the reasons of Javanese teenagers in maintaining the Javanese language in Medan-Helvetia. The study was conducted by qualitative method. The data were taken from observation and interview. Observation used to find out the factors affect the Javanese teenagers maintain the Javanese language in Medan-Helvetia, while the interview was used to get information from Javanese teenagers about how the Javanese teenagers preserved the Javanese language and the reasons of Javanese teenagers preserved the Javanese language. There are four factors which support Javanese teenagers maintain the Javanese language such as: using languagein family domain, using language in neighborhood domain (environment), using language in religion domain and using language in workplace domain. Language maintenance can be done through five ways; by living near each other and see each other frequently, dealing with intra-marriage with in the same minority group, living together and use the same minority language and visiting homeland. The reason Javanese language maintenance were preserved by Javanese teenagers; keep ethnic identity, they were proud being Javanese people, enablesosial adaptation and keep cultural diversity.