The Language Attitude of Rongga Speaker’s in Komba Village

Abstract

This study auns to analyze the language attitudes of Rongga speakers nr various social and cultural contexts. Language attitude is an individual's view or perception of the language he or she uses. Through a qualitative approach, this research involved questionnaires, and m-depth interviews with native speakers of Rongga language. The results showed that the majority of Rongga language speakers had a positive attitude towards the process of Rongga language preservation in the context of making several efforts to preserve the Rongga language by documenting various Rongga cultural activities, publishing reading books available in Rongga language and so on. However, there are also those who are negative about the use of Rongga language in informal situations, where foreign languages (such as Kolor language) are more often used, and agree with the statement that the culture of the Komba Village community can survive without Rongga language.