LINGUISTIC ADAPTATION OF BAJO IN SUMBAWA ISLAND: A PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR SOCIAL MOTIVATION OF LANGUAGE CHANGE

Bajo is a language of Bajo ethnic group. Besides, Mbojo, Samawa, and Indonesian also exist in their every day of live. Mbojo and Samawa are languages of cross cultural boundaries. Indonesian is national language. They often make contact with the speakers of Mbojo and Samawa. This circumstance results in linguistic adaptation. To collect data of their language contact, the speakers were interviewed and recorded. Diachronic study and simple statistic were used to analysis the data. The result, most of the adaptation is on phonological aspect, and younger speakers were apparently dominant