Bahasa Jawa sebagai Pengungkap Kearifan Lokal Masyarakat Samin di Kabupaten Blora

This article illustrates how a language cannot be separated from its speaker\u27s culture. The research was conducted among Javanese Samin community. The research result reveals that Javanese language used by Samin society can explain the phenomenon of the relation between speaker\u27s language and their culture. This Javanese language is very closely related with Samin culture. The local wisdom expressed in Javanese language contain various teaching, such as on how to keep passions under control, shall not cheat, shall not hurt others, on guidance of live, on how to keep promise, on karma law, on honesty, on religious precepts, on impossible thing, on the belonging of someone as wealth and woman, on how to devote parents, on how to conserve environment, and also about work ethics. © 2013 Universitas Negeri Semaran