About Me
Hai, I am Nor Ismah, a Masters student of Asian Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I was born in Pekalongan, a district in Central Java, Indonesia that is also known as Batik city. But now I live in Yogyakarta, a province in Indonesia where you can find Borobudur temple and Merapi mountain. Javanese is my mother tongue and I use it daily with my family and other people in my home town. Both in Pekalongan and Yogyakarta I speak Javanese but they have some slight differences in words and dialects. I also speak Bahasa Indonesia for official and commercial purposes.
I am involved in documentation project to document not only my language, but by doing this I am also helping to converse about my culture. For example, there are some traditional games using Javanese song played by children. When I was small, I used to play traditional games with my friends, but now I have forgotten the games in detail, even our current generation do not play it anymore. So, I also want to keep record of those traditional games to preserve them as our cultural possessions.
Javanese
Javanese is a language spoken by people in the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, in Indonesia. It belongs to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family. More than 75,500,000 of people are natives user of Javanese, and in Indonesia it has several regional dialects that have differences in many words and dialect. For example, Javanese in Tegal, a district in Central Java is different from Javanese in Pekalongan, even though both of them are located in the same province. Like for ‘hungry’, in Javasene in Tegal is ‘kencot’, while in Javanese in Pekalongan it is ‘ngelih’.
In Javanese, there are three levels of languages that we use for conversation. There are Ngoko, Kromo Madya, and Kromo Inggil. According to Javanese culture, the way of speaking to someone younger is different than to someone older. We use Ngoko to talk to our friend and whoever who are younger than us. To talk to somebody whom we respect or to stangers we use Kromo Madya. And, we use Kromo Inggil to talk to our parent and some people in important positions. Kromo Inggil is used as well for some ceremonies in formal situations like wedding parties.
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<http://www.lonelyplanet.com/indonesia/java/images/><http://imodular.net/>
<http://6lokalindotours.indonesiatravel.biz/><http://mycityblogging.com/yogyakarta/><http://indonesiabatik.net/> <http://bp.blogspot.com/><http://germanyitalia.info/>
Hai, I am Nor Ismah, a Masters student of Asian Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I was born in Pekalongan, a district in Central Java, Indonesia that is also known as Batik city. But now I live in Yogyakarta, a province in Indonesia where you can find Borobudur temple and Merapi mountain. Javanese is my mother tongue and I use it daily with my family and other people in my home town. Both in Pekalongan and Yogyakarta I speak Javanese but they have some slight differences in words and dialects. I also speak Bahasa Indonesia for official and commercial purposes.
I am involved in documentation project to document not only my language, but by doing this I am also helping to converse about my culture. For example, there are some traditional games using Javanese song played by children. When I was small, I used to play traditional games with my friends, but now I have forgotten the games in detail, even our current generation do not play it anymore. So, I also want to keep record of those traditional games to preserve them as our cultural possessions.
Javanese
Javanese is a language spoken by people in the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, in Indonesia. It belongs to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family. More than 75,500,000 of people are natives user of Javanese, and in Indonesia it has several regional dialects that have differences in many words and dialect. For example, Javanese in Tegal, a district in Central Java is different from Javanese in Pekalongan, even though both of them are located in the same province. Like for ‘hungry’, in Javasene in Tegal is ‘kencot’, while in Javanese in Pekalongan it is ‘ngelih’.
In Javanese, there are three levels of languages that we use for conversation. There are Ngoko, Kromo Madya, and Kromo Inggil. According to Javanese culture, the way of speaking to someone younger is different than to someone older. We use Ngoko to talk to our friend and whoever who are younger than us. To talk to somebody whom we respect or to stangers we use Kromo Madya. And, we use Kromo Inggil to talk to our parent and some people in important positions. Kromo Inggil is used as well for some ceremonies in formal situations like wedding parties.
Images sources:
<http://www.lonelyplanet.com/indonesia/java/images/><http://imodular.net/>
<http://6lokalindotours.indonesiatravel.biz/><http://mycityblogging.com/yogyakarta/><http://indonesiabatik.net/> <http://bp.blogspot.com/><http://germanyitalia.info/>