LANGUAGE DEATH OF ARABIC LANGUAGE IN MEDAN. CASE STUDY: ARABIC SOCIETY IN MEDAN

Abstract

The results of the study concluded that the reasons of the language death happened among Arabic community in Medan mostly because as the descendants of the third generations do not speak the language anymore, since their grandparents used bilingual to their parents yet they chose to speak Indonesian as their favorite language. Moreover, most of them already do inter marriage and neglected their cultural language and identity and assimilated to their spouses. The young generation has been sent in the schools which only use Indonesian as an interaction among them.