Faculty of Art and Culture, Udayana University
Online published on 17 March, 2016.
Sound of words is not only related with the problems of pronunciation but be in the context of bilingualism and multilingualism. Contact between languages and dialect can deepen one's understanding of language areas, change and nature of phonological systems. Adoption of English as a second language gives impact to phonologies of the language, especially Indonesia. Loanwords or borrowing of a word from one language (English) into another language (Indonesia) will be involving loanword phonology since both languages have different phonologies. In this study nativization process in particular words found for familiar words by without necessarily being fluent speakers of the language, depending on degree of changing, phonological characteristic of words of those languages and status.
loanword, phonological system, phonological characteristic