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The Vernacular Languages Come To Extinct.

The document discusses the extinction of vernacular languages in Indonesia. It notes that languages are an important part of culture and identity, and that many vernacular languages are becoming extinct due to people preferring to use Indonesian, English, or local slang instead. The government and citizens need to make efforts to conserve vernacular languages, such as creating laws to protect them, holding cultural festivals to promote them, requiring language education in schools, fostering interest in learning languages, and encouraging families to use vernacular languages. Both government and citizens have a role to play in protecting vernacular languages from extinction.

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The Vernacular Languages Come To Extinct.

The document discusses the extinction of vernacular languages in Indonesia. It notes that languages are an important part of culture and identity, and that many vernacular languages are becoming extinct due to people preferring to use Indonesian, English, or local slang instead. The government and citizens need to make efforts to conserve vernacular languages, such as creating laws to protect them, holding cultural festivals to promote them, requiring language education in schools, fostering interest in learning languages, and encouraging families to use vernacular languages. Both government and citizens have a role to play in protecting vernacular languages from extinction.

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An Essay for Sociolinguistics

The Vernacular languages come to extinct.

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Language ia a part of our life. By language, society can communicate each


other so they can understand each other and it can make easy their lifes. Then,
how if language is extinct? Is it a problem? These questions need to be responded,
not ignored. Language is not only identity of society but also culture of society.
So we need to care, protect and conserve it. If the language is lost, the society will
loose their identity. At this modern era, especially in Indonesia, there are many
phenomena about vernacular languages come to extinction. It is due the careless
of society. They are inclined to use the slang language. Some of them think the
using of vernacular language is plebeian or people call it “kampungan or ndeso”.
In addition, a person who marries with someone that has different culture and
language sometimes does not bequeath their languages to their children. They use
language that they can understand each other, for instance, the buginese man
married the java woman, they had to use another language so they could
understand each other. The possible language they used is Indonesia language. It
can be possible their first generation still can understand buginese and java
languages although they can not utter them. The second generation can only
understand one of the language. The third generation probably does not
understand them.

Furthermore, some people think Indonesian language or foreign language


such as English is worthier than vernacular languages. That makes them does not
use their vernacular language. Based on the statements about what makes the
vernacular language comes to extinct, the follows are strategies than can be
applied to maintain the vernacular language from extinct.
The efforts that can be done by Indonesian’s goverment to protect and to
conserve the vernacular language from extinct are; first, the goverment must make
a strong law to protect and to conserve the vernacular language. By this law, it is
hoped that vernacular language can be kept for its original. The second, he should
hold the culture festival each year and introduce vernacular language. It can be
done through performance such as theater, musical, etc. The third, he makes law
for every schools and colleges must have curriculum to learn the vernacular
language.

The efforts that can be done by Indonesian’s citizen to protect and to


conserve the vernacular language from extinct, as follows; first, we have to have
strong intention to learn our vernacular language; the second, we have to create
the yearning of love, happiness and yearning to conserve thus we can learn the
vernacular language easily; the third we have to read book about vernacular
language and understand the history of the vernacular language. So, we can
understand the meaning the vernacular language and know the culture of it; the
last, we do communication between the members of family using vernacular
language from where our family comes.

Therefore, both goverment and citizen of Indonesia have duty to protect


and to conserve the vernacular languages.

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