Karonese Language Shift of Young Generation

Language shift is the process of replacement
one language with other language in the linguistic
repertoire of a community. Language shift can be
influenced by various factors: social (interact,
communicate in society), economic (obtaining work),
politic (government policies concerning language and
education) and demographic (migration, urbanization,
intermarriage between groups), value (not highly valued
the language), and attitude (attitude of the speaker in use the language). This study aims to describe, the factors of language shift among Karonese young generation. The subjects were 20 young generations of Karonese, from intramarriage family and intermarriage family. The ages range of the subjects were between 13-17 years old. There are six factors influenced Karonese language shift of young generation, such as; bilingualism, migration, social factors,
political factor, demographic factors, and attitudes and
values. The results of the study showed that political factor has the highest influence towards language shift is 100% and then followed by social factor 90 %, demographic factor 80%, migration is 60 %, bilingualism 46% and attitude and value 40%. Political factor like government policies concerning language and education is the main reason of language shift among Karonese young
generation. Meanwhile attitude and value does not
significantly effects the shift of Karonese language.