The Analysis of Sundanese Language to Students' English Consonant
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Dialectical Literature and Education Journal (DLEJ) p-ISSN 2548-6926, e-ISSN 2714-996X Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2020 https://dlejpancasakti .ac.id/index.php/dlejpancasakti THE ANALYSIS OF SUNDANESE LANGUAGE TO STUDENTS’ ENGLISH CONSONANT PRONUNCIATION CONDUCTED IN SMA MUTIARA PALABUHANRATU 1st Anisa Alawiyyah 2nd Handi Pabriana English Education Program English Education Program STKIP Bina Mutiara Sukabumi, Indonesia STKIP Bina Mutiara Sukabumi, Indonesia [email protected] [email protected] Abstract: The aims of the research is to know the main appearances of students English consonant, pronunciation, fricative English sounds pronounced by Sundanese student, and new variant appeared in student English consonant. This research used descriptive qualitative as the method. The instruments used are questionnaire, test and interview which be held to 42 samples of SMA Mutiara Terpadu. Research result found that 100% sample transformed the sound ð to d or t, 100% sample transformed the sound ‘ʒ’ to ‘s’, 100% sample transformed ‘ʧ’ to ‘c’, 96% sample transformed ‘ʤ’ to ‘d’ or ‘g’, 98% sample transformed ‘ʃ’ to ‘s’, 94% samples transformed ‘f’ to ‘p’, 100% samples transformed ‘v’ to ‘f’ or ‘p’, 100% samples transformed ‘ɵ’ to ‘t’, and 100% samples transformed ‘z’ to ‘s’ to ‘j’. The double consonant in a word was banned, such as ‘around’ to ‘aroun’. The conclusion is the unknown consonant of Sundanese in English transformed to Sundanese similar sound, and the rule of English pronunciation was equal to Sundanese rules. Keywords: sundanese language; english consonant; pronunciation INTRODUCTION Sundanese spread in West Java and the transmigration area such as Lampung, In this modern era, we are Kalimantan, and other. The majority of forced to be able to communicate with Sundanese live in West Java, the most people around the world. densely populated in Indonesia. For sure Communication related with the language many of Sundanese learn English as a that every country has their language. way for communicating with another English as most spoken English in the country. The relation of both languages is world made it become an international influence each other especially English. language. Learning English as foreigner For sure Sundanese as the second most language has many problems especially spoken language in Indonesia. Many with their mother tongue. Even though in Sundanese native learnt English Indonesia, English is important subject to especially students. The different learn. In that position Indonesia is as a structure both of language was influence multicultural country, with 1430 tribes especially the different of consonant. spread on every island. More than 746 regional languages used by many According to Sudaryat (2013) Indonesian especially Sundanese. The Sundanese language is mother tongue for third biggest language in Indonesia, more Sundanese in West Java who lived in than 43 million people use Sundanese as West Java and other region in Indonesia. a language for communicating. The amount of Sundanese native 13 Dialectical Literature and Education Journal (DLEJ)p -ISSN 2548-6926, e-ISSN 2714-996X Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2020 https://dlejpancasakti .ac.id/index.php/dlejpancasakti language was a big, it made Sundanese as and society. Sundanese was standardizing the second of the biggest region language by the vocabulary and spelling. The after Javanese. Before the independence attempt of Sundanese is constructed of Indonesia, Sundanese was a first dictionary by Roorda (1841). Finally the language in West Java. The use of kind standardize of Sundanese language that Sundanese language in region was long use of Sundanese people is Kamus Umum time mentioned as Sundanese regional Basa Sunda by LBSS stated in Sudaryat language. It can be analized from (2013). vocabulary, accent and intonation. According to PPPB the center of guiding Like another language, Sundanese and language conservation written by has sub system of language namely Suriamiharja (1981), there are Sumedang, semantic, phonology, phonetic, Cianjur, Ciamist, Serang, Cianjur, phonemic, graphemic, graphology, Subang, Tasikmala, and Purwakarta morphology and syntax. It discussed dialect. Beside those, there is a personal about the lexical and lexicology. The local dialect such as dialect of Cirebon Sundanese language associated to the (Ayatrohede, 1978 stated in Sudaryat, application especially in oral (speaking 2013:3-5). and listening) and written (writing and reading) is termed pragmatic. The rule of Moreover, Sudaryat (2013) stated, pragmatic is used to decide the correlation the formal language has the vitality and of Sundanese and English consonants intellectuality. The vitality language is with the application of language in a language that is able to grow up, exist, but context. Due, the language system un raw in accepting the influenced of includes the pragmatic. The associated of another language. The intellectuality subsystem and the application of talked about how a language is able to language is explained in figure 1. apply in science, technology, informatic, Sound System Oral Language Pragmatic Language System Written Conversation Letters System Figure 1 Subsystem of Sundanese Language Sora Ucap is the sound produced by mouth and has a symbol (Phonetic). Sora The sound of Sundanese language has Pikir is the sound that sound different or two senses. They are sora ucap (Parole) similar which differ the meaning of the and sora pikir (langue) (Sudaryat, 2013). word (Phoneme). The Sundanese 14 Dialectical Literature and Education Journal (DLEJ)p -ISSN 2548-6926, e-ISSN 2714-996X Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2020 https://dlejpancasakti .ac.id/index.php/dlejpancasakti phonology has six majors (1) Sounds of Sawara (Vowel) is the sound that language, phoneme, and letters; (2) is produced by the air flow of lung Speech Organ; (3) the kind of phoneme without any obstacles (Sudaryat, 2013). (vowel and Consonants); (4) The In the production of sound, there are three sequence of sound, paragraph, and factors effected the quality of sound, there vocabulary; (5) suprasegmental are round-flat the lips, front-back the characteristic; and (6) the kind of sound. tongue, and the up-down the tongue. The Sundanese vowels amount of seven. Table 1 Symbol of Sundanese Vowel Vowel Symbol Graphemics <a> <i> <u> <ẻ> <o> <e> <eu> Phonemics /a/ /i/ /u/ /Ɛ/ /o/ /e/ /eu/ Phonetics [a] [i] [u] [Ɛ] [o] [ծ ] [ő] Wianjana is the sound of language English consonant is the part of constructed by the airflow from the lung phonological object that deeply focused with any obstacle (Sudaryat, 2013). The on the sound. According to McCully consonants of Sundanese language (2009), the consonant is only sporadically consist 18, there are: /b/, /c/, /d/, /g/, /h/, present in my own idiolect, that is, my /j/, /k/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /ny/, /ng/, /p/, /r/, /s/, particular implementation of standard /t/, /w/, and /y/. The consonant of /w/ and Northern British English, and then only /y/ always called as the semi-vowel or the under certain geographical or social madya-vowel. Caused of the influenced circumstances. of the foreigner language, in Sundanese language there are also the /f/, /q/, /v/, /x/, Meanwhile, O’Grady, and and /z/. Sundanese has different Dobrovolsky (2005) said, consonant may characteristic with English, especially in be voiced and voiceless, are made by the their consonant, Sundanese does not have narrow or complete closure in the vocal any fricative consonant, it was a foreigner track. The block or restricted of the language which applied in that language. airflow is produced as the airflow past the constriction. The consonant is provide in figure 2.7 15 Dialectical Literature and Education Journal (DLEJ)p -ISSN 2548-6926, e-ISSN 2714-996X Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2020 https://dlejpancasakti .ac.id/index.php/dlejpancasakti Figure 2 International Phonetic Alphabet that student find difficult to comprehend the unfamiliar accents. They just During the same time period that comprehend of what they knew before Behaviorism was relevant, (Lado in especially their mother tongue. It clear Geeslin 2014) about the Contrastive that the student would acquire in their Analysis Hypothesis that stated accent in learning a target language. linguistics could predict areas of difficulty for target language learners According to Kang and Ginther through a careful comparison of the first (2018), the sounds known by the students language to the target language. It means in their first language or mother tongue that the different structure of both would compare to the sound of target language made the difficulty in adapting language. The main premise was that if a the language. The difficulty made the sound was shared by or similar in both error in learning the target language languages, then it would be relatively especially in sounds and grammar. easy to acquire. Kang and Ginther (2018) stated that the problem is if a target Meanwhile, the first language language sound were not found in their plays a minimal role in the developing of first language, it would be pronounced target language (Geeslin, 2014). It means differently as their first language. It that the influence of first language appears in consonants and vowel features. strongly effect to the target language. The It means that the student would transform effect of the first language could not be the sound of target language to their first expected as we thought. language. Those are the aim of this research conducted. The similar finding by Flowerdew (in Kang and Ginther 2018), concludes 16 Dialectical Literature and Education Journal (DLEJ)p -ISSN 2548-6926, e-ISSN 2714-996X Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2020 https://dlejpancasakti .ac.id/index.php/dlejpancasakti METHOD The data collecting technique of this research used questionnaire, test, This research is conducted in and interview. Which are focused on the SMA Mutiara Terpadu Palabuhanratu. problem and the aims of the research is The school is chosen by the researcher gaining information about the analysis of because of the English language the subject especially Sundanese development was a priority.