LEXICAL CHANGE IN MANDAILING NATAL LANGUAGE

This research discovered the types of lexical changes in Mandailing Natal language and the reason of lexical change of Mandailing Natal Language. It was a qualitative design. The analysis based on the document written in Mandailing Natal language they are Mandailing dictionaries and books and in-depth interview. The findings show that the lexical changes in Mandailing Natal language consist of lexical loss, semantic change, and lexical creation. The number of lexical change is 385 lexical, where lexical loss is (78.96%) 304 from lexical, semantic changes is (2.85%) from 11 lexical, and lexical creation is (18.18%) from 70 lexical. Each types of lexical change is divided into several parts, they are: 1) lexical loss is divided into obsolete object and obsolete notion, 2) semantic change found are broadening, narrowing, and semantic shift, and 3) lexical creation comprised into two type namely external borrowing and internal borrowing. External borrowing divided into modified lexical borrowing, total lexical borrowing and loan translation borrowing, whereas the internal borrowing consist of clipping, ellipsis and blending. The reasons of lexical changes in Mandailing Natal language are: 1) lexical loss in Mandailing Natal language are influenced social cultural development, technological development and prestige, 2) Semantic changes in Mandailing Natal language are strongly influenced by social cultural development, methapor, and polysemy, and 3) lexical creations in Mandailing Natal language are strongly influenced by language contact, development of technology and prestige. The lexical change in Mandailing Natal language is the evidences that lexical change occur in any language. Lexical change can lead to positive and negative impacts. Positively, a change can lead to a refinement of the language aspect. But on the other hand, it is necessary for the role of all stakeholders to do revitalization of Mandailing language and literature through the instructional process in the formal education environment, schools, families, and communities.