Indonesian English Analysis

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Therefore, the overall aims of this paper are to find out how far the Indonesian English (Indolish) expressions are understood by the Indonesian and non-Indonesian people. The detailed investigation covers three main areas: 1). The difference between the Indonesian English variety (Indolish) and the standard English and the causes of the difference; 2) The Indonesian and non-Indonesian students’ level of understanding regarding the expressions written in the Indonesian English variety (Indolish); and 3). The easiest and the most difficult expressions for Indonesian students and non-Indonesian students and the possible causes as well as the role of the contexts. The implication of the purpose is to find out the way to help the society in increasing …show more content…

The spelling of some expressions is adjusted because Indonesian has the same or similar pronunciation as English, but different in writing. The examples are such as tune /tʃuːn/, queen /kwiːn/ and tubeless /ˈtjuːbləs/ with the Indonesian cun /tʃun/, quin /kwin/and tubless /tjubləs/.The sounds /tʃ/ and /k/in Indonesian which are represented in the alphabet c and k have a similar sound as those of English with a little difference that the Indonesian version of the sounds are less aspirated than the English ones. Another example with a similar case can also be found in house and silent, which have the same pronunciation /haʊs/ and/ˈsaɪ.lənt/, but which are written as haus and …show more content…

The simplification is found in the diphtongs /eɪ/ and /əʊ/ which are simplified as /e/, and /əʊ/. Indonesian language has those diphthongs, so the possibility of the occurrence is that the people do not know the correct pronunciation or they just neglect the standard and simplify them. Another kind of the non-standard in spelling is caused by hypercorrection, meaning that the Indonesian actually has the same phoneme, but the phoneme is changed to make the word sound more English. In the word develover which is the hypercorrection of developer, the change of the sound /p/ into /v/ has some possible causes such as the people want to have more English sound, or it may also be to have more interesting word or the mistake, or just shows the ignorance of the standard English (see Table 1 and Table

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