dc.description.abstract | Socio-culture-language contact between Javanese and Madurese ethnic groups at urban area of Jember has been
started for a long time with an increasing intensity. The socio-culture-language contact resulted a Javanese
language variety that was different from the West Javanese language (BahasaJawaKulon) variety. This article
examines the linguistic structure differences of Javanese language variety used at the urban area of Jember and
the West Javanese language variety. The study was conducted using a qualitative method and the data was taken
from the speakers of Pandhalungan language variety at Jember City. The results are presented as follows. The
existence of Javanese language variations as the object of this study is very clear, which is marked by
phonological differences (4 rules), morphological differences (5 rules), syntactic differences (2 rules), and
semantic/lexical differences (so far 60 lexicons have been found). Pandhalungan language speakers are native
speakers of the Pandhalungan language (Pandhalungan as the first language) with social identities: (1) both
parents have Javanese ethnicity, or (2) one of the parents is Javanese and the other is Madurese | en_US |