MEDIA OF LANGUAGE SHIFT IN BAJAU SAMA KOTA BELUD : SPEAKING, UNDERSTANDING, READING, AND WRITING READING, AND WRITING
This study investigated language shift among middle-age, adult, and youth age groups of the Bajau Sama Kota Belud indigenous people. The cross-sectional study involved 243 participants, selected using stratified sampling. The questionnaire was based on language transmission assessment by Brenzinger...
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Faculty of Educatipn, Language and Communication, UNIMAS
2023
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/45866/1/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20ILS_Compiled%20manuscripts_tsh_22Jun2023.doc.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/45866/ https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/ILS/article/view/4990 https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.4990.2023 |
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| Summary: | This study investigated language shift among middle-age, adult, and youth age groups of the Bajau Sama Kota Belud indigenous people. The cross-sectional study involved 243 participants, selected using stratified sampling. The questionnaire was based on language transmission assessment by Brenzinger et al. (2003). Results showed that language shift across different skill areas — speaking, understanding, reading, and writing — showed that the Malay language in everyday life is more dominant than their mother tongue among adults and youths. The language skills
and the language daily use scores of Bajau Sama adults and youths are not significantly correlated. The two groups manifest the four variables of language shift in Bajau Sama. This study shows that the language shift phenomenon in Bajau Sama is accelerated in the younger generation, and they serve as the living agent of language shift. Following this, there is an urgency to develop a Bajau Sama language
corpus and to implement revitalisation initiatives in Kota Belud, Sabah. |
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