Language Choice on Pakpak Dairi Communinities in Dairi District

Abstract

This research aims to know language choice on Pakpak Dairi communities in Dairi district. The research method used in this research is qualitative and quantitative research. The result of this research showed adolescent group used Indonesian language (60,6 %) when they communicated with father/mother, brother/sister, and friends with same tribe. Then adult group used Pakpak Dairi Language (100%) to father/mother, husband/wife, and friends with same tribe. Then, they used Indonesian language (63,6%) to children. And parent group used Pakpak Dairi language (93,9%) to father/mother, husband/wife and friends with same tribe. Then they used Indonesian language (39,4 %) to children. Language Attitude for adolescent group was negative attitude, while adult and parent group were positive. In other side, adult and parents group did language choice by doing code switching and code mixing to the participant that could not speak Pakpak Dairi language.

Keywords: Language Choice, Multilingual Society