Degradation Of Sasakneseness Language In Lombok Tourism, Indonesia

Abstract

Sasaknese tribe in Lombok Tourism area is a speaker of languages that master two languages (Bilingualism), namely Sasaknese language and Indonesian. As a tourism area, bilingualism speakers are contaminated by the presence of alkaline travelers who come from outside the island of Lombok and International. This research was focused on finding out the degradation of Sasaknese language in the family area, service, and the tourism area of Lombok in Gili Indah consisting of Gili Terawangan, Gili Air, and Gili Meno. The qualitative descriptive approach used in this study to obtain verbal data from the results of interviews and the questionnaires. The collected data was analyzed using the Constant Comparative Method, which were data reduction, categorization, synthesis, and work hypothesis. The results of this study showed that the degradation of Sasaknese language was caused by the tendency of choice of the people language dominated by Indonesian and the language of the Sasaknese people. The use of Sasaknese language in the service area and tourism suffered a significant setback and not even used at all in the tourism area. Therefore, the use of Indonesian in tourism areas was safe in the service area, which was 72.7%. This data shows the Sasaknese tribe tends to use Indonesian mainly in the service of correspondence administration. The difference in the tourism area, precisely the use of the traveler's language (English) was 80.3%. This percentage shows the degradation of Sasaknese language was very concerning in the tourism area due to contamination of the traveler's English language.