Phonological Change of Arabic and Dutch Loanwords in Indonesian

Arifuddin Balla

doi:10.24256/ideas.v11i2.3886

Authors

Arifuddin Balla Institut Parahikma Indonesia, Indonesia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1569-3308

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24256/ideas.v11i2.3886

Keywords:

Arabic, Dutch, Indonesian, loanwords, phonological changes

Abstract

In the literature of contact linguistics, phonology is known as the most affected by the contact. Long-standing situation and intense contact between Indonesian and Arabic and Dutch have led to extensive borrowed words yielding phonological change to accomodate foreign sounds that Indonesian inventory did not have. This article looks at the phonological change in Arabic and Dutch loanwords. Consonants from Arabic and Dutch are adapted into the closest consonants in Indonesian phonology while the consonant clusters are repaired by a vowel insertion. This study employed the descriptive qualitative method. The data are mainly from two dictionaries of Indonesian loanwords, Arabic Loanwords in Indonesian by Jones (1978) and Loanwords in Indonesian and Malay by Jones (2007). I also use my intuition as a native speaker of Indonesian to justify the lexicon items. The result of the analysis shows that there are four loan phonemes (/f/, /z/, /Êƒ/, and /x/) imported from Arabic and and phoneme /f/ from Dutch Dutch in the Indonesian phonological system. Â

Author Biography

Arifuddin Balla, Institut Parahikma Indonesia

Completing a double major program in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, United States with a Fulbright scholarship. Currently, working as the head of the center for language development at Institut Parahikma Indonesia. The research of interests are in language contact, language ideology and attitude and sociolinguistics.

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