GENDER, AGE AND ADDRESS FORMS IN THE BIMA LANGUAGE
Abstract
Since the language is inextricably tied to the social domain, its use in the communication would not be exist freely regardless of the consideration of who, what, when and where it is employed. Triggered by such phenomenon, this study is aimed to discover the uniqueness of the Bima language address form covering the traditional, moslem and modern nick name. This study also tried to discover the address form used, the effect of age and gender to the selection of address form and the vowel change pattern. The findings of this study show that the nick name of the Bima language appear in three kinds of name, namely traditional name, moslem name and modern name. The address forms are found to occur in personal pronoun and name in which it issignificantly influenced by age and gender. The vowel change pattern for female dominantly appear in a-u, ɛ-o, o-i and a-ɛ with some small variants such as ɛ-ɛ, ɛ-i, i-a, o-o and o-a while the dominant vowel change patterns ɛ-o and a-o srved for the male address forms. Some patterns such as a-u, i-a, o-a, o-i, o-ɛ and i-u are not intensively found.
Keywords: Address form, the Bima language, age, gender and vowel change.
Abstract
Since the language is inextricably tied to the social domain, its use in the communication would not be exist freely regardless of the consideration of who, what, when and where it is employed. Triggered by such phenomenon, this study is aimed to discover the uniqueness of the Bima language address form covering the traditional, moslem and modern nick name. This study also tried to discover the address form used, the effect of age and gender to the selection of address form and the vowel change pattern. The findings of this study show that the nick name of the Bima language appear in three kinds of name, namely traditional name, moslem name and modern name. The address forms are found to occur in personal pronoun and name in which it issignificantly influenced by age and gender. The vowel change pattern for female dominantly appear in a-u, ɛ-o, o-i and a-ɛ with some small variants such as ɛ-ɛ, ɛ-i, i-a, o-o and o-a while the dominant vowel change patterns ɛ-o and a-o srved for the male address forms. Some patterns such as a-u, i-a, o-a, o-i, o-ɛ and i-u are not intensively found.
Keywords: Address form, the Bima language, age, gender and vowel change.
