Maintaining and Shifting the Ngapak Tegalan Dialect among Students at Pancasakti University, Tegal

Abstract

Language is an essential communication tool for humans. In its capacity as a communication tool, language has a special function in society because it can carry out daily activities in interacting with interlocutors, such as establishing relationships and collaborating between individuals, expressing thoughts and feelings, expressing desires, a tool for self-identification, and so on. This research uses interviews as a data collection technique to discuss how the Ngapak Tegalan language is maintained and shifted among Pancasakti Tegal University students, with 19 informants and different criteria. The result of this research is a description of the maintenance and shift in the use of the Ngapak Tegalan language using the case study method combined with the concept of language shift by Fishman in Gracia (2011) among students at Pancasakti University Tegal. With data collection techniques using interviews, it was found that there were two visible languages, Indonesian and Tegalan Ngapak Dialect, among students at Pancasakti University Tegal. However, the language most often used is the Ngapak Tegalan language.