Phonological And Lexical Exploration On Dialect Differences Between Kemiren And Tampo Osing

Keywords: Osing language, Kemiren, Tampo, Dialect DifferencesIn Indonesia, there are many local languages. One of the local language is Osing language in Banyuwangi, East Java. This research aims to find out differences between Kemiren Osing dialect and Tampo Osing dialect in terms of the phonological and lexical aspects.This research is descriptive qualitative. The data were collected using interview and pupuan lapangan or field research (researcher went to see the informant and had the face to face interview). Two informants were chosen from two different villages. The data were taken from 46 sentences produced by informants.Results reveal that in terms of phonological differences, there are 7 differences, that is consonant addition, the vowel change / o / becomes / u /, the vowel addition / ə / , the vowel reduction that form / i / into / e /, the vowel addition / u /, the vowel reduction from sound / e / into / a /. In phonemic variation that is a change from phoneme / i / into / e / and the phoneme / e / into / a /. As for lexical differences, there were 21 sentences containing lexical differences. The most lexical difference was found in the predicate component.Further researchers, who conduct similar topic are suggested to complete this research, not only in terms phonological and lexical differences but also broaden to cover other linguistic aspects especially syntactical aspec