The Lampung Banker, - "Preserve Indonesian, preserve native language, and master foreign languages." This slogan coloring the common sense of language in Nusantara. But does it ever occur to you how far the local language is preserved? Forgotten, abandoned, until eventually extinct.
Lap has a language (known Lampong) divided in two major dialects (fire and nyaw). Each dialect has a different characteristic, diverse subdialect and a writing system in its character. It shows that the rich Lampong language will be untranslated in language when reviewed linguistically.
Moreover, geographically, the Lampong Province is a transit area between Java and Sumatra, particularly the land line. In addition to indigenous communities who live in Lampung are from different areas outside of Lampung Province so it's fair to say that the Lampung society has been integrated from many ethnic, cultural and languages.
It has language diversity and becomes a transit area that affects the use of Lampung. In business, government, and even daily communication, people tend to use Indonesian language.
Because, in this case, Indonesia became the unification of various languages that existed in the Mutier Society and made communication easy. It's indirectly affecting the latent language existence. Furthermore, the population of the Lampung population in 2018 was 9 million people and recorded about 1 million lives are the master of identity. That number raises a hypothesis that the Lampung language will lose its shape-breaker.
Linked to an empress, in 2017, a study that analyzes student language. In a sense, they tend to use Indonesian language, whether they talk to parents and brothers at home or in public places or when they talk to friends who are also Lampung.
Moreover, it was also discovered that families as a core scale of passive language learning so that children are not good at speaking Lampung. According to UNESCO, if at the stage of children no longer use mother language in mother's house, that language is endangered. Another fact is also found in Ethnologue (a page that provides language metadata in the world) that Lampong language is in the category threatened (endangered), fire dialect or nyaw.
According to Moseley, Indonesia has 146 endangered languages which one of them is Lampung. Next, there's also another problem with research related elements of Lampung language. Arka discovered that from 1975 to 2007 there were 335 local grammar studies and recorded only nine Lampung grammar studies. This means that the study of Lampung grammar is still limited.
Basically, from those facts above can be concluded that there are four factors that affect the extinction of Lampong language, the area of transit, the diversity of language, the population of the language-management, the limited study, the complexity of these trigger factors is clearly visible to the eye. Therefore, let's try to save him.
As for the efforts that can be made to include:
In closing, it is time for us people of Lampung to join together and celebrate "For You is My Fade." [Dr. Afrianto, SS M.Hum, Professor of the University of Teknokrat Indonesia]
