Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Allah has created everything in this universe, thee (alone) owner the day of judgment1. And Allah created anything, for instance: the earth2, the light of the sun and the moon3, the sky4, changing morning to evening, otherwise evening to morning to make us thinking about those and believe that Allah is the greatest one5. Therefore, language is one of the “thing” who Allah gave human being to communicate with the other, to manage, and to organize the earth6.
As
far as we know that human being made the rules and the laws to
regulate the other human, made a society, furthermore made a country.
To make it certainly with the mediator, it name is language. To say
the least, we always use it everyday. When we talk to our parents,
friends, and other person, but we haven’t known exactly, what the
language is? What the aspect of language is? For the time being, i
will explain about the aspect of language, for instance: nature of
language, study of language and the relevance of linguistics.
The
Nature of Language
Language is a
system, that has two systems, it is sounds and meaningful. When we
say: qur’an, it means that the holy book of moslem. In
arabic grammar rules it said with kalam mufid wa musnad (the
sentences that have a meaning and can understood). Another features
of human language is that it is productive and creative. This refers
to the ability of native speaker to understand and produce any number
of sentences in their mother tongue. Also, language is arbitrary.
Words have the meaning they do and occur in order they do, just
because the native speakers of the language agree to accept them as
such.
Language
gave us an ability to related with person that we haven’t
introduced yet. It also brings us into relationship, and it learned
as a skills that is acquired when we grow up in society. All
languages are equally complex. Each language is part of the culture
that produces it and it is adequate for the needs and aims of the
people who use it. For instance: the ethnic of minangkabau,
one of the ethnic group in sumatera
island have a traditional poetry (each verse of which consists
of two couplets: the first suggests the 2d by sound or other
similarity. It is often sung in contests where a boy addresses a
quatrain to a girl who must answer with a quatrain of her own)
as they communication everyday.
Our
beloved country, Indonesia. It has more than 546
vernacular over the ethnic group, and region in Indonesia7.
For example: the well-known language is Java vernacular, it has 3
levels that depend on the usage. Kromo
inggil is the
polite form of Java used to and among upper-class people,
Kromo alus is
the polite form of Java used to and among
same-class
people, Ngoko
is speech
level of Java used among intimates or when speaking to certain people
of lower status8.
Even though, one region is different with the other, such as: solo
has calm dialect than other, Brebes
has dialect with stressing words like kebumen
and wonosobo.
Any
language, is as good as any other in that it serves the purposes of
the particular culture. Words may be created or borrowed as the need
arises. No language intrinsically better or worse than any other,
because Allah made the different language and color of leather
becames one of thou regalia9.
Study
of Language
Long
time ago, language had been studied, such as the experiment of
philosophical of Greek, Herodotus who lived
in the 5th century BC. That an Egyptian King, by the name of
Psammetichos, wished to determine which of the world’s languages
was the oldest. He found that the oldest language is Phrygian. Be
like that, the theory pooh-pooh, and bow-bow. But study of language
in terms of correctness is not considered scientific and nor is the
study of language based on speculation. The scientific way of
studying a language should be based on actual observation of the
language to see how it is actually spoken by the native speakers.
Nowadays, Study of
language famous with the Linguistics, it had been proven to be a
science because 5 characteristics had been completed, Such as:
1. Subject matter, the
subject matter of linguistics is explicit, for example: Linguistics
explained about human being language, as a system between sound and
meaningful.
2. Objective,
Linguistics explained about language according to objective of
language, nor subjective because if linguistics explained about
subjective, it will not generalization.
3. Generalization,
Linguistics is accepted become a knowledge that explained about
language by the people.
4. Statement on the
result of investigation should be arranged in systematic form,
Linguist had arranged the observation and research systematically.
5. A Science is never
static, Linguistics is dynamic in that it is open to changed and
reconsideration.
However, we know
that Arabic language, there are the well-known Linguist i.e.
Bulaghah, they arranged the Arabic language systematically,
generalization, etc. For example: ilmu ma’ani (interpretation),
and bayan (meaning)10.
Beside that, there are grammarian, they are Kuffah and
Basrah11.
At least, it has been agreed taht linguistics can be called as a
science with the fulfillment of the requisite knowledge be a science.
The
Relevance of Linguistics
As a teacher
especially language teacher, we should know about linguistics.
Because linguistics has 3 benefits for us, for example:
1. Linguistics can
increased awareness of language should make a language teacher more
competent in his job.
2. Linguistics can be
more directly applied to teaching language.
3. Linguistics can be
the source of assumptions and has certain applications for language
teaching.
In conclusion,
Language has been an important position in our life, language can
related us to the other, make a relationship, furthermore make a
society. And we know that language in the world was so abundant, but
intrinsically there is not language better or worse than any other.
Because human being is the same according to Allah, except the
faithful12.
And we know that our prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wa sallam
said: “You are all children of Adam( peace be unto him), and
Adam is from clay. Let there no superiority of an arab over non-arab,
nor non-arab over an arab, and neither shall be a superiority of a
white over a black, nor a balck over a white person, except by good
character( taqwa)13.
At least, let’s we thank to Allah, for the abundant graceful that
we can never count it.
1
Al-fatihah: 3
2
Al-baqarah: 164
3
Al Furqaan: 61
4
Al-baqarah: 29
5
Ali imron: 190
6
Al-baqarah: 30
7
http/www.dikti.go.id/jumlah
bahasa di Indonesia
8
http/wikipedia.org/wiki/bahasa jawa
9
Ar-ruum: 22
10
Qowaid Lughatil Arabiyah: 104
11
Syarah ibnu aqil: chapter tanaju’
12
Al-Hujurat: 13
13
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