Elements of Ancient European Used in Balinese

Abstract

Lately, many elements of ancient European language are used Balinese youth conversations in meetings. They consist of students, university students, and sekaa truna-truni (groups of youth). They talk about various things, and in their conversation there are elements of the ancient European language. This is very interesting to disclose, especially in relation to: 1) what elements do they use when speaking Balinese? 2) how would the phonemic adaptation form if the elements of ancient European languages were written in Latin script? 3) which sociolinguistic variables influence the use of these ancient European language elements? 4) which elements of ancient European languages are predominantly used? This study uses a qualitative research design, with the object of Balinese adolescent speeches during meetings. So the data is collected in an oral corpus which is then transcribed. Then the data were analyzed descriptively and inductively. This study found the following results. 1) The elements of ancient European languages used by Balinese teenagers when speaking include: a) Anglo-Saxon preffix, Latin preffix, and elements of Greek. b) The form of writing of these elements is adjusted to the Indonesian spelling system which uses Latin script. 3) Sociolinguistic variables that effect the use of elements of ancient European languages are, situation, topic, and receiver-speaker. 4) Elements of ancient European language that are widely used/adopted are Latin elements. Therefore, Balinese teenagers need to deepen their understanding of the elements of these ancient European languages.