THE DESCRIPTION OF ALAY LANGUAGE FOUND IN TWITTER
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ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
Kertas karya yang berjudul “The Description of Alay Language Found in Twitter”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The first of all, I would like to thank to the Almighty Jesus Christ, my savior for giving me His blessing, giving me so many grace, health, strength, and passion as long as doing this paper.
In this opportunity, I also would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to the dean of faculty of culture study Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A, the head of English Study Program Dr. Matius C.A. Sembiring,M.A who has paid attention, guided, and supported me in finishing this paper. Then, I would like to thank to Dr.Masdiana Lubis, M.Hum as my supervisor who has given advice, suggestion, guidance and help in writing this paper. I Would like to dedicate a deep gratitude to the reader of my paper Drs. Umar Mono, Dipl. Tran., MHum, thank you for the valuable time in reading and giving the correction and constructive critics in completing this paper.
Special thanks to my friends in English Study Program, SOLIDAS”11, My Senior and Junior. Thank you for the loves, supports, and jokes. Thanks to all The Servant of God, PS.Eukharista NHKBP Maranatha, Crescendo Studio Choir, for your spirit to serve in our lovely choir. Thanks to UKM KMK USU UP FIB, the place I find my self character, vision in my live and become a leader. For my small group (Fitriani, Fitri Yanti, Getha, Gomgom, Josia, and Yovi), thanks for your support, for the pray, the smile, and all times together grow in small group (Keep in faith!). My lecturers in English Study Program, thank you for the knowledge, advices and pointers.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
Kertas karya yang berjudul “The Description of Alay Language Found in Twitter”
1. INTRODUCTION
1. 1 Background of the Study
The development of language in the world, especially in Indonesia has been happen from time to time. Nowadays, there are many languages are developing in Indonesia. The ethnic language, and also Bahasa Indonesia itself has been changed in several ways of use. Some people mix it with their ethnic language, some of them mix it with another language and even Bahasa Indonesia itself, has its own formal changes that are legalized by the government. Besides these third changes, Indonesian youth have used Bahasa Indonesia with their own way. It is a proof that language is changing day after day because it is dynamic, social changes produce changes in language which happens slowly by the process of human interaction.
In this postmodern era, there is also Alay language that people use in their daily live. Alay (or 4L4Y, Anak Layangan or Anak Lebay) is a pop culture phenomenon -It is a stereotype describing something “tacky” and “cheesy” (norak or kampungan). The Alay culture phenomena spans over a wide array of styles in music, dress, and messaging.
"excessive get transformation". Contrary to the popular belief that it is "destroying" the national language, grammatical standards are met in contrast to the modern Indonesian slang language. Similar to the jejebets (a person who has managed to subvert the English language to the point of incomprehensibility), Alay texts offer an alternative in compressing words so they are under the 160
character-limit in text messages, often to the point that they are impossible to read. Rules in capitalization are mostly ignored.
Alay language (bahasa alay) itself is a kind of language that comes from
teenager or adolescence from the low class at the beginning. Clark and Eve (1977: 27), states that adolescence is about 13 to 19 years old. But nowadays the user of the Alay language is not only the youth. Mature people who are close to the youth world also use this language.The development of technology also has main contribution in the development, change, and spread of language. The fast growth of electronic tools such us radio, television, fax machines, smartphone, ipad, computer and so forth, bring new style of communication and also bring a drastic change in social, economic, cultural, and language styles. One of the electronic technologies that bring a big effect in human languages is the computer and smartphone.
it as free album to collect photos, to find old and new friend from all over the world and the main reason is to have fun by making communication with people among the world. These are why twitter can be a place where the language can be mixed, changed, produced and lost. This condition may bring a situation where the youth no longer use Bahasa Indonesia in proper way. The appearance of twitter has encourage changing in the way of communication. Twitter which is used as written communication tools that should use formal language, has prompted a shift in the use of spoken language become written spoken language. Examples :
1. Formal Language
Saya akan pergi ke Medan bulan depan (Formal)
The first example is formal because it is compatible with the structure and the diction of Bahasa Indonesia.
2. Informal / Slang Language
A: Hei , dude wanna join us tonight (informal) B: Mmm, yups. gonna be there. (informal).
From the second example, the conversation in informal because the dialogue use
„wanna‟, „yups‟, „gonna‟ which are part of slang.
3.Word Abbreviation & Emoticon Meaning yang yg
harus hrs abbreviation and emoticon usage. People use abreviatons to make it simpler to be written or typed. These abbreviations and emoticons are used commonly in informal written langauge and understood by many people. But nowadays, the people have created a new style, not only modify the formal to informal. Use slang or use abbreviation and emoticon, they make a new style to write such as mix alphabet with usual letter. Alay language may happen when a speaker chooses to use another language, makes it as daily language and does not maintain the original language.
This Alay phenomenon also reminds us of phenomenon of slang language which always exists in every young comunication. Slang language has not disappeared at all. For instance, term bokap or nyokap, these Slang language terms are often used in daily conversation nowdays. Slang is quite different with Alay language, this language is more complicated in its spelling or writing style.
Alay text may have originated from the method of making strong
meaningful and easy to remember, the password would consist of normal words, where some letters are capitalized or substituted with numbers (e.g. the letter a with 4, the letter o with 0). Soon this becomes a habit in writing text in general, and improved with mixing English and Indonesian in one sentence. Confusing text that could not be understood properly and probably has no meaning (except for the writer), is also considered as Alay Text. This type of text usually contains information of the writer's mood and feeling, it is also common for the text to contain the writer's own philosophy on a certain topic such as love, heart break, and relationship.
This study focuses on the use of Alay language in social media (twitter). In twitter, people are allowed to express their tought as free as they want. They can write anything with their own style. So, here we can see how the Alay people use their own language.
1.2 Problem of The Study
The problems of the study are as follows:
a. What is the characteristic of Alay language are used in twitter status? b. What is the meaning of vocabulary with Alay language characteristic
found in twitter?
c. What is the dominant characteristic of Alay language used in twitter status?
1.3 Scope of The Study
Scope of the study has important purpose in writing this paper. It is used to limit the problem so the topic in this paper is more focused. The scope of this study is about the Alay language based on Shinta (2011) found in Twitter status of the user friend / personal account of @widoro_4r17 followers.
1.4 Purpose of The Study
a. To describe the characteristic of Alay language used in the twitter status.
b. To explain the meaning of vocabulary with Alay language characteristic found in twitter
c. To explain the dominant characteristic of Alay language used in twitter status
c. To describe the reasons why people use Alay language.
1.5 Reason for Choosing the Topic
2. REVIEWS OF RELATED LITERATURE
In conducting a research, theories are needed in avoiding ministerpretation to analyze the problems in this study. The writer describes the language shift, youth language and Alay language to support the content and the analysis.
2.1 Language
A. Definition of Language
Language can be defined as means to deliver something that comes in the heart. It means that the language as an instrument to deliver thoughts, ideas, concepts or feelings to be conveyed to others.
Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI, 1990: 66) says, “Bahasa diartikan sebagai system lambang bunyi berartikulasi yang bersifat sewenang-wenang dan
konvensional yang dipakai sebagai alat komunikasi untuk melahirkan perasaan
dan pikiran.” Language is interpreted as a sign system of articulates sounds which is arbitrary and conventional used as a communication tool to bring forth feelings and thoughts.
Keraf (1997:1) says, “Bahasa adalah alat komunikasi antara anggota masyarakat berupa simbol bunyi yang dihasilkan oleh alat ucap manusia.”
Khaidir (1998:21) says, “Bahasa sebagai sebuah sistem lambang bunyi yang arbitrer, yang dipergunakan oleh para anggota suatu masyarakat untuk
bekerjasama, berinteraksi, dan mengidentifikasikan diri.” Language as a symbol system sounds arbitrary, which is used by members of community to collaborate,
interact and identify themselves. Pei and Gaynor (1975: 119) says, “ Language is
a system of communication by sounds, i,e., throught the organs of speech and hearing, among human beings of certain group or community, using vocal
symbols possessing arbitrary conventional meaning.” From the view of the
linguist like Kridalaksana, Pei and Gaynor above, Language can be emphasized as a symbol system. The term system contains the meaning existence and regularity of the constituent elements.
Effendi (1995:26) says, “a communications expert, look at the language of the two side of the formal and functional”. Formally, “ Bahasa diartikan sebagai semua kalimat yang terbayangkan, yang dibuat menurut tatabahasa.” While formally, “ Bahasa diartikan sebagai alat yang dimiliki bersama untuk mengungkapkan gagasan.”
Dirgo (1999 :1) says, “ Bahasa adalah rangkaian bunyi yang dihasilkan oleh alat ucap manusia secara sadar.” Language is a series of sounds produced by the human vocal organs consciously. And next Chaer and Agustina (2004:11) say, “ Hakikat bahasa antara lain bahwa bahasa itu sebuah sistem lambang, berupa
B. Language Shift
Language shift is known or relevant with “language change” or language death”. Holmes (2001) gives some explanation about the language shift :
The most obvious factor is that the community sees an important reason for learning second language. The reasons are often economic, but they may also be political. The second important factor seems to be that the community sees no reasons to take active steps to maintain their ethnic language or they may not realize that it is in any danger of disappearing. The social and economic goals of individuals in a community are very important in accounting for the speed of shift.
The language shift itself refers to the degradation of using language by native speaker.Besides, Holmes also said that the most obvious factor is the communities. It comes by the situation where the communities were in contact with another language and found a process where they feel comfort or it is important for them to use the new language. The situation usually happens among the youth where they feel more comfort to use their own language to disguise the meaning or just to make creativity.
Some factors affect the language shift: 1. Demographic factor.
The demographic works as a barrier. When a community was located in an isolated place, there is only a little opportunity for their language to be spread or to get a new language, which will involve their knowledge about the development of language or the appearance of new language. However, the appearance of the technology today has destroyed some aspect of the language barrier as long as the place has receive the new technology of communication.
2. Surrounding situations
In other case, the situation of surrounding will affect speaker to involve in
language shift. The importance of using language in people‟s daily life
sometimes push people to learn and use a new language in continuity. When someone comes into a new place meet with new people who use diffrent language that is used at his or her new place. Here will be chance for this people to forget his old language.
3. Social and economic
People cannot live alone, it means that they have to „get on‟ in the society.
Along with the communication frequency with the abroad friends, there will be a chance for the language shift.
Economic factor also can be a reason for the language shift. A shift to another language may influence someone depend on where he get a job. An Indonesia who gets a job in a German factory will speak German language frequently. Even when one day he has to move to work in German, he has to use it in his daily life. Therefore, there is a big chance for Bahasa Indonesia to be shifted into German language.
A language shift can be happened in a short or long time, depend on the eagerness of the native speaker to maintain his language. Language shift not only affects a small group of community, but it can also affect a big country; we can see Indonesia as the example. Indonesia has some changes in it language from 1945 until today.
C. Youth Language
Actually, Youth language (bahasa gaul) has been occurred since long time ago. There are many varieties of the youth language. The language is always changing from time to time because there will be a time when a language is death and being replaced by another new youth language. Sumarsono and Pratana (2004
: 81), categorize the youth language in Indonesia from 1950‟s to 1980‟s into four
1. Put consonan V + vowel
This style appeared around 1950‟s. The youth put consonant V + vowel on
every syllable, which was used at the time. Examples:
This language style appeared around 1960‟s in Malang. It is read from the right to left.
Tidak → kadit (no)
There are new vocabularies that appear in walikam style: Walikam Meaning Sehat → tahes → tahohes (health)
4. Prokem language
This language style appeared around 1980‟s. This language is determined
Examples :
Bapak → bap →b →ok →ap → bokap (father) Ngumpet →ngum →ng →ok →um →ngokum (hide) Begitu →begit →beg →ok →it →begokit
Beside the word with the pattern above, it also find any words without rule.
Examples :
Amsyong →hancur (broke into pieces)
Item →kopi (coffee)
Ogut →saya (I)
Ji →kamu (you)
There are also some acronyms Examples :
HUT →hanya untuk cinta (just for love)
Fanta →fanatik tapi agresif (fanatic but aggressive)
Pendekar →pendek tapi kekar (short but strong) Metastesis
Besok → sobel (tomorrow) Piring → riping (plate) Bener → neber (true)
After 1980‟s the youth always produce new bahasa gaul. Around 2000‟s
there are a newmillenium era with it‟s own language. In this era the speaket
Examples :
1. Mau (want) become mawar(rose)
2. Aku tidak mau makan ( I don‟t want to eat) become Akika tinta mawar macarena..
D. Alay Language
Around 2011, there appeared new kind of youth language namely Alay Language (Bahasa Alay). Alay language is a kind of language that is popular among the teenagers in Indonesia, now on. According to Shinta (2011:13), Alay (4L4Y), Anak Layangan or Anak Lebay) comes from the phoneme “a” and “lay”. These are an acronym for Anak Layanga n. In the beginning Alay is a term that is used to describe the low class teenager who use any aspect of fashion that is copied from the celebrity. By the time, teenager or youth that use special freak kinds of writing that is usually difficult to be read. The user of this language will mix capital alphabet, symbol and number to write a word or sentence. They will also add the alphabet, so it will be difficult to be read.
At the beginning, Alay is meant as a lifestyle of teenager or adolescence from low class, but it becomes a trend soon. (Shinta, 2011:13)
Beginner: “ seNank dech haTi sAaiia.. taDi paGi dianTeRin ama paCal dund.. tapi biNund juga, tumbEn yaCh paCal ku
saAiiank mao anTel??”
I‟m so happy.. this morning my boyfriend took me.. but I also confused, it‟s not ususal that he car and want to do it.
Intermediate: “ hErandTh juJJa.. kOgh, cAaiiaa gugh iCa nGwerJaiNth sOal mTema Tikha yUaaccH..? KaTa pacALd, aaiiOO
sEmaNgadTh beLaJard.. bIaL piNteRd.
It‟s really confused me… Why did I can‟t do the math
exercise? My boy told me to study hard to be clever.
High Level: “ DucH Gw4 5aiianK b6t sAma Lo.. 7aNgan tin69alin akYu ya B3ibh”
Oh… I really love you. Please don‟t leave me baby.
King of Alay: “ hErandTh s4iiA M4 Bh5A aLLai!! Ii4Nk an3H bln ngaCo, pi mAsEEch bNya6h aJj4 i!Ank m4k3.. p4k3 iiAnk
n0rMaLd Jj4 dumMzz.. Bh4sa gN!! M4H B!kiNdTh paLa
pUs!inK dUamzZ..
I confuse with this strange Alay Language. Why a lot of
people still use it…Just use the normal one… Such
language is just making me get a headache.
Beside the level, there are some types of vocabulary in Alay language.
Style Word Meaning
Plat Number t4 / t3mp4t tempat (place)
Caps lock semester semester
Etc plink/ p‟ling paling (the most) Luph, luff, loupz cinta (love) Kamuh, kamyuh, kamuwh kamu (you)
Beside the freaky style of writing, this Alay community also has their own vocabulary and emoticons to express their feeling or mood.
Caps lock/ Acronym Number Meaning
AbcdE 4ih b0 cu4p33 deh aduh bo capek deh(very tired) cAbs/ caPcuS c4but/ p3r61 pergi (go)
EmbEr 3mb3r iya/bener/setuju (yes/true/agree)
J/k ju5t k1dd1n6 hanya bercanda (just kidding)
From the example above, we can see that Alay language has chaged some structure of the original word. It has ruined the word from the orthography side. Orthography is a system of writing a language.
Examples :
Original word Alay language
No one no on3
For You 4U
A good orthography has to have the four things: 1. Easy to read
2. Facilitate the obtaining of information 3. Facilitate dissemination of information 4. Enable the spirit of learning
People who know the language can read it without feeling embarrassed (http:ejournal.unud.ac.id/abstrak/4%20suprawa.pdf).
Beside the orthopraphy, Alay language also create many new term and acronym.
Examples :
Original word Alay language Pergi cabcus/ cabut
Just kidding j/k
Usually this Alay style is used in writing messag or social network such us twitter or sometimes it is also used in facebook. In this paper, the writer analyzes Alay language that is used in twitter.
Based on Alay Handbook (Shinta,2011) it can be concluded that Alay language is a kind of mess language which has these five characteristics:
1. Unusual acronym Examples :
Acronym Meaning
EGP Emang Gue Pikirin
● Gagh suka dechh sama orang yang giutch, kan gagh sopanh namanyah (gak suka deh sama orang yang gitu, kan ga sopan namanya / I don‟t like such kind of people, so rude)
3. Put capital letter among the letters in the word Examples :
● keNAps kaMu DatangNYa lama sEkali ● kalaU kAmu mEmAnG SuKa Ya BiLanG Ja
4. Create new spelling of the original word Examples :
Original word New spelling
Lama sekali lama beudz
Semangat cemungudh
5. Replace letter with number Bandung, and Bangun Nogroho, student of State University of Malang.
Widya Astuti (2013) in her thesis entitled “Language Attitudes towards
Written Alay veriety in Facebook Interaction” . She uses a descriptive method to
describe and interpret the data. The study reveals that the realization of written Alay variety in Facebook covers two broad categories, namely spelling and
the variety. In contras, most ex-users react negatively towards the use of Alay variety as they consider that have a low prestige or status and is not a proper variety to use.
Bangun Nogroho (2012) in his thesis entitled “Bahasa Alay as a Current Identity of Some Indonesian Tennagers”. His study is concerned with discussing the word formation of bahasa Alay, degree of similarity in bahasa Alay, and length of utterance and its ratio with standard language. The research design of his study is qualitative-explanatory. The primary data are the written form, which are taken from the update statuses and comments from primary and secondary respondents. The data were collected through document analysis.The research tried to find and identify the Alay words and utterances from statuses and comments posted by the respondents. The result can be classified into three major categories. First, the word formation process reveals the lexical features of bahasa Alay. Fourteen word formation are found. Five of them ([a] borrowing, [b]
categories: very similar, similar, different, and totally different. Third and finally, the lengths of utterances are used to reveal the variation of utterance in bahasa Alay. They are classified into different criteria: very short, short, moderate, long,
and extremely long. Thus, those three previous aspects are utilized to reveal how bahasa Alay is able to serve the identity of certain group of teenagers in Indonesia. Thus, future researchers can elaborate more in the relationship between age of Alay users and the created lexicons. They can learn whether the orthographic
distortion can classify the users into certain categories based on their age.
The writer choose Alay language as object of paper because inspired by
3. METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Method
A method is a way of doing something. This study focuses its attention in Alay language in Twitter. It was conducted by using descriptive method. According to Best (1982 : 105, 106) descriptive method is non-experimental, since it deals with the relationship between non-mainpilated variables in a nature.
This research is done in two ways they are Library and field study. Library research is applied to get information in solving a problem, to fulfill an academic assignment or for our own purpose. This method is used to find a certain data by collecting some books that are relevant to topic discussed. In addition, for the field study the writer will give questionnaires to the respondents and get some data by getting involved in using twitter in internet.
3.2 Data and Data Sources a. Data
The data of this research are words, phrases, and sentences in the status of the twitter user, and the answers of the questionnaires obtained from respondents. The data used in this study are gained from twitter user status. There are 459 status taken from two sparated time (April 19th to April 24th and April 28th to May 4th.)
b. Data Source
1. Primary Sources
This study has some data to be analyzed. The data of this research are the
status of the twitter user that appear in writer‟s twitter . The writer uses Android smartphone to open twitter and captures their tweet that use Alay language. Primary sources are used to answer the problem number one and two.
2. Secondary Sources
The secondary sources is Alay community. The location of Alay community in Medan is at Jalan Matahari Raya, Helvetia Medan. I have to find people that have done some research about Alay language and give them interview. Interview are needed to get the information about the reasons why people use Alay language. Secondary sources is needed to answer the problem number three.
3.3 Data Collecting Method
To collect the data, the writer gained the status of @widoro_4r17 twitter followers. The writer applies Observation method for primary source, and interview for secondary source. According to Bungin (2007: 115) observation method is a collecting data method that is used to accumulate research data through observation and sensing. According to James (2005: XVI) interview is a research instrument consisting of a series of question and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents.
The data are collected based on the following steps; 1. Choosing the status
Note: n = The percentage of dominant Alay language Fx = The dominant Alay language
N = The total number of Alay language 7.3Data Analysing Method
Descriptive method is applied in analyzing data. There are some steps in analyzing the data, as follows:
1. Reading the status. 2. Identifying the status.
3. Classifiying the status according to the type/character that is used.
4. Finding the meaning of Alay vocabulary by consulting Indonesian and English dictionary.
5. Finding the dominant characteristic of Alay language used in twitter status
by using Bungin‟s formula (Bungin, 2005: 171-172)
4. ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS
4.1 Analysis
This part consist of characteristic of Alay language, its meaning, and the answer of the respondents. To answer the problem number one, the data to be analyzed are taken from twitter, a social network website. To answer the problem number two, the meaning of each Alay words is found by consulting Indonesian and English dictionaries. To answer the problem number three, the dominant characteristic of Alay language is calculated based on the Bungin‟s formula. While the last problem number four, is obtained from interview.
4.1.1 The characteristic of Alay language
According to Hand Book Bahasa Alay Shinta (2011) there are some characteristics of Alay language. They are Unusual acronym, additional letter, put capital letter among the letters in a word, replace letter with number, and use Alay term.
1. Unusual Acronym
There are some status used Unusual Acronym
a. OMG oh my now oh my wow. Chelsea 1 sdngkan atletico Madrid 3
Adoehhh goyang cesar dlu lahadik bg !!!!!
b. @SUREWONKYU Au ah, egp wkwkwk udah biasa ya sparkyu digituin
c. payah masa org betawi ga suka syur haha @Maulana_931: iyaaa
nasib ga suka itu jadi ngiler RT @nniania: Itu mah DL hahahahaha
RT @Maulana_931
d. @Andre_eLBe TTDJ sayang, selalu merinkukanmuu pa
Table 4.1. The meaning of Alay language vocabulary using Unusual Acronym No Vocabulary of Alay
There are some status used Additional letter.
a. Haiii kkak ;) cantikk dech ! namanya siapa ? –hii hahha amin nizrina
say ask.fm/a/agfo9g2q
b. Ngeri kali bajakan kau dai,jangan buaat maluu akuuuu :‟(
@imamhadiusman
c. Hadaaaaaaay, bajak kau day ngerih kali, buat malu aku yaaaaa : „(((
@imamhadiusman
d. kenapa laptop tak boleh connect dengan external niiii. Baruuuu je
e. Perut laperrr oyy …. Oyy …. Oyy, mau masak nggak ada bahan nya,
mau beli makanan diluar males udah malem, yaudah makan angin aja
-_-
f. apa salah akika ya Tuhan RT @Ida_luvlovchyie @Vearriee88 dasar
booreeeeeeeee xa knak ngin :D
g. @yovitaan2 @zevtaa_ cobakkkk deh keluar kerenn banget kek di
novel2 getohhhh wkwk;v
h. sorry klo gue trllu kasaaar ma lu ngomong nya
i. @Aisyaalin pengennn ikuttt -_-
j. @ebert_sinaga hancorrr hancorrr.. Beta modom haha
Table 4.2 The meaning of Alay language vocabulary using Unusual Additional letter
No Vocabulary of Alay Language Meaning in Bahasa Indonesia
4 booreeeeeeeee Bosan Bored
5 Buaat Buat Make
6 cantikk Cantik Beautiful
7 cobakkkk Coba Try
8 getohhhh Begitu Like that
10 Haiii Hai Hay
11 hancorrr Hancur Broke
12 Hii Hai Hay
13 kasaaar Kasar Coarse
14 Kkak Kakak Sister
15 kerenn Bagus Good
16 laperrr Lapar Hungry
17 maluu Malu Shy
18 Niiii Ini This
19 yaaaaa Ya Yes
3. Put capital letter among the leter in a word.
There are some status which the word that is used was written by mixing capital letter in each word.
a. Ahaha… RibUAn calEG bongkar Rumah WargA gara2 Ga2L pemILU.. goo.gl/ucYhD2 #BenarBenarBeda #SFNew4Andromax #KIRLIUASK
b. @bangtantaev 0k3 f1n3
NO Vocabulary of Alay Language Meaning in Bahasa
4 pemILU Pemilihan Umum General Election
5 RibUAn Ribuan In Thousands
6 WargA Warga Citizen
7 0k3 Oke Ok
4. Replace letter with number.
There are some status which the word is written by replacing the letter with number.
a. S4y4n9 4l4y.
Ahahahaha :D
b. n64nt0x d4h m4T3, t4Pih sUs4h n4x tiDox,
M3nc0b4 #4L4y :D
c. @ask_AXIS min ko jrngan internet le2t bngt
d. @vanillabanana @mybubbleewrap meluk mas yeyong sengaja gw
templokin pake 5u5u… mba dah liat videonya belom!!!!!!!!!!!!
e. @flhiyuu 1mp0sS113lE y4nK,, qM jgNdHh flTn4H
NO Vocabulary of Alay Language Meaning in Bahasa
16 1mp0sS113lE Mustahil Impossible
17 4l4y Alay Alay
5. Use Alay term.
a. klo gk saying ja ngan sok sayang ! udah gk jaman cinta karna terpaksa
! apa adanya aja udah cukup koq :‟)
b. @FromAirenIndo oppa mw nembak capa tuch…. ?
c. Kmrn2 teriak bilang 3Besar skr masih juga songong n bangga Gak
Tereliminir, si akhi lom paham data yg lom masuk itu daerah2 yg bkn
basisnya
d. bangun tidur ,,,
disuguhi senja sejuk dan secangkir kopi maniez …..
e. Terlalu maniezt untuk di lupakan
f. Tapi ngomongnya ga gitu a, masih anak kecil itu mah -_-
“@RyaanSptian: haha iya deh udeh gede ye ckalang RT
@annisaaaaKH: Engga a engga .
g. @FitriaNhz aku baru ugah bubu lomz mndi wkkwk ;(
h. 13 #MGF (Yooyoung cari abang a me teteh (?) nyang somplak, seru,
k. @auliasNasution whatsup cuy, katrok kelees
l. Sudah diperingatkan berkeles-keles jangan sekeles-keles buang
sampah di keless = D
n. gk terasa uda jam 1 cuus tidur!
o. @Epegipis yaudachhtt akhuee udachh ngebaleztt koo :3 “___” p. Haduchh.Cpeq bgt hri niccc
q. `yg memilih itu xmu bukan ax Mengertilah meski cuma sedikit r. @JacyJordan_RP cantikan ekeee ciyn s. Nasib kau la itu bro haha gua mah jijay
Table 4.5 The meaning of Alay language vocabulary using Alay term NO Vocabulary of Alay Language Meaning in
10 Ciyn Teman Brother/Sister
11 ckalank Sekarang Now
12 Cpeq Lelah Tired
13 cuus Ayo Come on
14 Cuy Kawan Brother/Sister
15 Cyin Kawan Brother/Sister
16 doang Hanya Only
17 dulhu Dulu Previously
18 eank Yang Nominalizing
particle
19 ekeee Aku I, Me
20 hadeehhh Aduh ow! / auch!
21 Haduchh Aduh ow! / auch!
22 Hri Hari Day
23 Jijay Jijik Repugnant
24 katrok Kampungan Rube
26 Koq Kenapa Why
27 Lach Lha Well, Yes
28 Lom Belom Not yet
29 lomz Belom Not yet
30 maniez Manis Sweet
31 mndi Mandi Take a bath
32 N Dan And
33 niccc Ini This
34 ngebaleztt Balas Replay
35 nyang Yang Nominalizing
Particle
36 Sok Sombong Pretending
37 somplak Tolol Idiot
38 songong Sombong Pretending
39 Tuch Itu That
40 udachh Sudah Already
42 Xmu Kamu You
43 yaudachhtt Ya Sudah I agree
44 Yuk Ayo Come on
6. Combination
There are some status which combine Alay language.
a. @mellyrready tak aapee kak tak ape dah tak sanggopp nhaan rrase
ni, uda blinang2 aek mate kluar
b. Y ampoennn, kumat ge, npa na ne kulit q, gatal nag g tahan, kpala na pusing , alegi ap lha q ne y A ,, :‟(
c. Acem klo blum mandi, mbak. Haha RT @Aliyandina: pagi2 blom sarapan lgsg ngantor mah biasaa, gmana klo blum mandi?? Marii
rasakan…
d. Astie Chyputriee Sulung updet her status: “Udachh #kaNgeNdt Lohh
sayaNg Aq sama kamUhh…. CuMaNn… “…
tmblr.co/Zok9is1Ejkxa5
e. Ga bicaaa tidur niccc “@raqwaanjoil: @Demi_MP yayaya itu hak camyuuh koqzzz… cudah tidur canah becokk kan cekoyaah:” f. @mi_ChristyChiBi @Rangga_Moela @rafaelTan hy kakak2 yang
cantik And Krenz,,, hehe hehe hehe
h. Hei cabekuu,happy birthday yaah @velina_gusti cemuga panjang umur, sehat slalu,tmbh pinter,tmbh syg sama keluarga,tmbh syg sama eyke
Table 4.6 The meaning of Alay language vocabulary using combination NO Vocabulary of Alay Language Meaning in Bahasa
Indonesia
5 ampoennn Ampun Forgiveness
39 sanggopp Sanggup Able language. They are because of personal or habitual attraction, social attraction, media attraction, trend attraction, and self-identity attraction.
1. Personal or habitual attraction
Firstly, it refers to personal or habitual attraction. It means that the use of Alay language is just because they are used to write in that way in their daily
conversation. It is also because they usually see this kind of language in their friends written text, so they already use it in their own texts. This can be proved by the following data.
“Awalnya karena suka corat-coret tulisan di kertas kalo lagi bête, besar-kecil, besar-kecil. Keliatan unik. Ga nyangkah, kebiasaan corat-coret huruf itulah yg sekarang malah sedang “in”, apalagi di
Actually from their reason it can be easily recognized thet they are Alayers. Habit becomes the reason for using this language.
2. Social Attraction
Secondly, it refers to social attraction. It means that the reason of people using Alay language is because they need to socialize themselves to other Alayers. This can be proved by the following quotation.
.
From those statements, it is clear that they uses Alay language because of their friends written style. The interlocutors influence their language use so much. The only way in order to be able to socialize with Alayers, they should use this Alay language, too.
3. Media Attraction
Thirdly, it refers to media attraction. Media may become the main reason of people using Alay language. This can be seen from the following quotation.
“Karena udah jadi kebiasaan kalo berbahasa itu menggunakan
bahasa Alay. Saya udah mulai menggunakan bahasa Alay sejak kelas X SMA. Sebelumnya saya malah ga tau tulisan saya itu
termasuk bahasa Alay.” (CH)
“Bingung juga, broo. Padalhan awalnya cm iseng2 aja besar
“Menurut aq sich karena pengaruh dari cara teman2 lain yg update
status kayak giru.” (SM)
“Cos, bahasa gaul kan terus berkembang di kalangan remaja, ya kemudian terikut oleh pergaulan itu bahasa Alay ini.” (DF)
Accordance with the title of this research, social media, such as Twitter is the main reason why people use this language. And it is lined with her statement above. Social media has influenced her to use Alay language because she often finds this language in the social media.
4. Trend Attraction
Fourthly, it refers to trend attraction. It means that people tend to use this Alay language because it is trend which is happening right now. Take a look at
the following statements.
This statement has proved that they do not want to be said out of date, This is now as well-known as kamseupay (read: kampungan sekali uuuhh payah).
5. Self-identity attraction
And finally, it refers to self-identity attraction. It is as stated by these people.
“Abis dimana2 orang pada pake bahasa Alay. Ga di SMS, Twitter, FB, BBM, n di FTV juga sering dipake. Jadi terikut aja, bg… Hehe …” (TM)
“Bahasa Alay khan bahasa gaul terbaru. Kalo ga pake bahasa gaul
Here, people want to be admitted as unique individual who own self identity and release from child and adult world. The use of this slang language is part of development process as their independency identity of adult and children.
“Ya, pengen tampil beda aja dari yang lain.” (CA)
“Cos alay kan emg identik dgn anak muda, ya wajar ajalah kita suka berbahasa Alay… Hehe..” (MP)
4.2 Findings
1. From the analysis, it shows that Alay language is the less dominant language style that is used by the twitter users. There are 459 twitter users, 49 status use Alay language and rest are spoken language.
From 49 status that use Alay language, there are 5 characteristics of Alay language that are used, they are; put additional letter, put capital letter among the letters in the word, using Alay term directly, replace letter with number, and combine some of the style.
2. The meaning of Alay language vocabulary found in twitter Vocabulary of Alay language Meaning in Bahasa
Ampe Sampai Till
Cabekuu Sayangku My Darling
Camyuuh Kamu You
CantikKk Cantik Beautiful
Capa Siapa Who
CalEG Calon legislatif Candidate of
DL Derita kamu Your Suffering
Dlu Dulu Previously
Doing Hanya Only
d4h Sudah Already
E
Eank Yang Nominalizing particle
fitn4H Fitnah Slander
F1n3 Baik Fine
G
gA2L Gagal Fail
Ge Lagi Again
getohhhh Begitu Like that
H
Haduchh Aduh ow (expression of
Kasaaar Kasar Coarse
Katrok Kampungan Rube
Keinii Seperti ini Like this
Mw Mau want
Nyang Yang Nominalizing particle
n4x Mau Want
n64nt0x Ngantuk Sleepy
O
OMG Ooo Tuhan oh my god
P
PemILU Pemilihan Umum General Election
Pens Penggemar Fans
pengeeen Ingin Want
Q Aku I, me
TTDJ Hati-hati dijalan Be careful on the way
Trs Terus Straight, direct
Note: n = The percentage of dominant Alay language Fx = The dominant Alay language
N = The total number of Alay language 3. Using Alay term is the more dominantly used. There are 19 statuses (38,45%). The percentage of the characteristics is used can be seen below:
1. Unusual Acronym : 5/49 x 100% = 9,88%
5. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusions
Based on the data analysis, the conclusion are stated as the following: 1. There were five characteristics of Alay language. They are unusual
acronym found in 5 status (9,88%), put additional letter found in 10 status (22,08%), put capital letters among the letters in a word found in 2 status (3,76%), Alay terms found in 19 status (38,45%), replace letter with number found in 5 status (9,88%), and found 8 (16%) combined status. 2. There are found 135 vocabularies use Alay language characteristic. They
are found 3 words using unusual acronym, 19 words using additional letter, 7 words using capital letter among the leter in a word, 17 words using replace letter with number, 44 words using Alay term, and 45 words using combination.
3. Using Alay term is the more dominantly used. There are 19 statuses (38,45%).
5.2 Suggestions
Having seen the results of this study, the writer would like to offer some suggestion to be considered by those who are interested in studying about Alay language and in making further research about it. They are as follows:
1. It is suggested that other researcher should make further research on more characteristic of Alay language which will be appear later.
2. It is suggested that the twitter user and the parents of the youth should understand Alay language that is spread in twitter, so they can understand the statements that use Alay language.
3. It is suggested that the user of Alay language keep using the right and formal sentence also, of course in the formal situation, especially. Even Alay language is not accepted by some people in society, while others prefer to use it, particulary youth. In this case it is suggested to the parents of the youth to, at least know this language so that they can understand and
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APENDIX 3 The Reason for Using Alay Language
The Reason for Using Alayers Alay Language
“Karena udah jadi kebiasaan kalo berbahasa
itu menggunakan bahasa Alay. Saya udah mulai menggunakan bahasa Alay sejak kelas X SMA. Sebelumnya saya malah ga tau
tulisan saya itu termasuk bahasa Alay.” (CH)
Personal or Habitual Attraction “Bingung juga, broo. Padalhan awalnya cm iseng2 aja besar kecilkan huruf ditulisan wkt esemesan, tapi malah keterusan (AS)
“Awalnya karena suka corat-coret tulisan di kertas kalo lagi bête, besar-kecil, besar-kecil. Keliatan unik. Ga nyangkah, kebiasaan corat-coret huruf itulah yg sekarang malah
sedang “in”, apalagi di twitter. Wkwk…”
(WS)
“Menurut aq sich karena pengaruh dari cara
“Abis dimana2 orang pada pake bahasa
Alay. Ga di SMS, Twitter, FB, BBM, n di FTV juga sering dipake. Jadi terikut aja,
bg… Hehe …” (TM)
Media Attraction “Saya kan OL tiap hari di FB, bg… Disn
banyk kawan2 yg pake bahasa Alay.” (SS)
“Di BBM banyak Alay gitu tulisannya.
Terkadang ga sengaja updte status pun pake
bahasa Alay juga.” (AK)
“Bahasa Alay khan bahasa gaul terbaru.
Kalo ga pake bahasa gaul kita dianggap ga gaul, kampungan, n ketinggalan zaman. Gitu
sih bg menurut aq.” (MS)
Trend Attraction “Bahasa Alay khan uda jadi tren, kalo mau tetap up-to-date ya harus pake bahasa Alay.” (AYP)
“Menurut saya bahasa Alay itu kan unik,
broo. Apalagi kalo dipadukan dengan bahasa
yang lain.” (ZS)
“Ya, pengen tampil beda aja dari yang lain.”
(CA)
Self-Identity Attraction “Cos alay kan emg identik dgn anak muda,
“Bahasa Alay bahasa gaulnya anak muda
masa kini.” (MRS)
