Local Language on the News at West Sumatra Print Media

The tendency of local languages to be used in news content is because of the nuances of meaning that emerge as the effect of using a word. The useing of various regional languages is the desire of the mass media (journalists) to popularize local language terms. In addition, the purpose of using the local languages in the news is to sharpen the meaning of a word, because not all Indonesian languages can represent the meaning of a local language. The purpose of this study is to describe the use of local languages in the news in print media. This type of research is qualitative research with descriptive analysis method. The results of this study indicate that the use of local languages on the news has several objectives, namely as a form of defense and empowerment of local culture. By continuing to insert local language in every published news media, the public will increasingly love the local culture and wisdom (popularizing the term local language in the mass media).