THE MINANGKABAUNESE–INDONESIAN (MINDO) LANGUAGE BY THE PEOPLE OF WEST-SUMATERA IN SOCIAL MEDIA: A STUDY OF INTERFERENCE AND THE FACTORS

Sonya Sri Amelia, Dr. Sailal Arimi, M.Hum

2024 | Tesis | S2 Linguistik

The use of Indonesian in the West Sumatra region is colored by the Minangkabau language, which in this research is called the Mindo language (Minangkabau-Indonesia). Through social media, Minangkabau language as one of the regional languages experiences a process of mutual influence on Indonesian. This research aims to identify the phonological and lexical variations of the Mindo language used by the people of West Sumatra in order to reveal the form, meaning and influencing factors. The data source for this research is the speech of speakers in social media videos. This research method is descriptive qualitative followed by data collection with observation techniques in the form of videos uploaded on social media YouTube and TikTok then followed by note-taking techniques. A total of 15 videos were collected as data sources. Data analysis techniques using data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions or verification. The results showed that in phonological interference there were 10 phoneme variation patterns with 21 variants. Then there are lexical interference monomorphemic and polymorphemic forms, there are three forms of polymorphemic forms, namely affixation, reduplication and composition. This research shows that this language variation occurs due to pull factors, namely the attractiveness of Indonesian and prestige, and push factors including lack of pronunciation, lack of appropriate equivalents in the target language, and carryover of habits in the mother tongue.

The use of Indonesian in the West Sumatra region is colored by the Minangkabau language, which in this research is called the Mindo language (Minangkabau-Indonesia). Through social media, Minangkabau language as one of the regional languages experiences a process of mutual influence on Indonesian. This research aims to identify the phonological and lexical variations of the Mindo language used by the people of West Sumatra in order to reveal the form, meaning and influencing factors. The data source for this research is the speech of speakers in social media videos. This research method is descriptive qualitative followed by data collection with observation techniques in the form of videos uploaded on social media YouTube and TikTok then followed by note-taking techniques. A total of 15 videos were collected as data sources. Data analysis techniques using data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions or verification. The results showed that in phonological interference there were 10 phoneme variation patterns with 21 variants. Then there are lexical interference monomorphemic and polymorphemic forms, there are three forms of polymorphemic forms, namely affixation, reduplication and composition. This research shows that this language variation occurs due to pull factors, namely the attractiveness of Indonesian and prestige, and push factors including lack of pronunciation, lack of appropriate equivalents in the target language, and carryover of habits in the mother tongue.

Kata Kunci : Interference, Lexical, Minangkabau, Mindo language variations, Phonology