Javanese Language Maintenance in Dusun Kampung Banjar Labuhanbatu Utara

This research deals with describing Javanese language variations maintenance in Dusun Kampung Banjar Labuhanbatu Utara. This research is conducted by using qualitative method. This research aims to examine the factors affecting the Javanese language maintenance in Dusun Kampung Banjar, to find out the ways in maintaining the Javanese language in Dusun Kampung Banjar, and to find out the reasons why the speakers of Javanese people maintain their language in Dusun Kampung Banjar. The data were collected from nine persons (male and females) of Javanese people using the observation and interview. The observation was used to examine the factors affecting Javanese language maintenance and the language use in seven domains in order to describe the ways of Javanese language maintenance. The interview was used to get the reasons of Javanese language maintenance in Dusun Kampung Banjar. The data were analyzed by Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2014). There are seven factors affecting Javanese language maintenance in the Dusun Kampung Banjar namely; Etno Linguistics Vitality (16.33%), Family Domains (16.33%), Neighborhood Domains (18.37%), Workplace Domain (10.2%), Religion Domain (18.37%), Educational Domain as a new insight in this research (6.12%), and the last Practice Traditional Domain (14.28%). There are four ways to maintain Javanese language in Dusun Kampung Banjar namely; Acquisition of the language by adults (21.7%), Number of people habitually using the language (34.8%), All age group encourage in the language (26%), and Using a language to next generation (17.4%). There are three reasons why they maintain their language namely; to express ethnic identity (37.5%), to ethic pride (37.5%), and to help their community to develop on program (25%). Analysis of data clearly indicates that Javanese language maintenance were done in Dusun Kampung Banjar.