A Study of Moronene Language Maintenance in Bombana Regency

Abstract

The aims of this research are to investigate the use of Moronene language in Kasipute and to the efforts of Moronene language maintenance in Kasipute. The researcher used qualitative as the research design. The research questions of this study are how is the use of Moronene language in Kasipute and what are efforts done by Moronene people to maintain their language. The data of this study were limited based on age levels, consisting of children, adolescents, and adults that consist of several domains namely teacher, farmer, trader , medical, government, custom figures and book writer. The collection data used observation, interview, and documentation techniques.  The results of this study shows that the use of Moronene in Kasipute weakens in children and adolescents and still strengthens in adults/parents. This study found that several language maintenance efforts done by the Moronene community as conscious and subconscious efforts.  First is conscious effort which are organization and education through learning. Second is subconscious efforts, which are, family domain, inheritance of the Moronene language in children and language loyalty.