HOW FOREIGN CULTURE INFLUENCES LANGUAGE IN INDONESIA
Abstract
Language is not just a tool used for communication but more of it every language is a representation way of people life. In almost every language, it’s nearly impossible to learn the language without learning their culture. Considering cultural factors that could determine why a society is using a certain word in place of another helps us to learn the language faster and adapt with those cultures. Language situations in any country cannot be stable. All the time languages are in condition of changing. Two main reasons for this is historical development and international contacts. a big amount of loanwords begin to be adopted in such spheres as economy, science, technology, i.e. in spheres there is a lack of local vocabulary. That is why two opposite process of westernization and nationalization coexist in modern Eastern countries. It turns out that changes in systems of eastern languages proceed continuously due to
influence of foreign languages. This writing tries to explore the influence of foreign culture to language in Indonesia.
Keywords: language, culture, loanwords, westernization, foreign
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