
According to village elders and community leaders, the name of Cempaka Village comes from a gift from Sheikh Maulana, a person who is said to have karomah. During his travels, Sheikh Maulana, a trader and propagator of Islam, paid a visit to Asor village (before it was renamed Cempaka village). The villagers were in a very bad moral state at the time. This predicament greatly concerned Sheikh Maulana, who wanted to make a change.
Decrease in Cirebon Usage
caused, as is the situation in the Cirebon area generally, by a variety of reasons. The Cirebon language, a blend of Sundanese and Javanese, started to lose speakers as a result of population migration, the predominance of Indonesian and Javanese in mass media and education, and other factors.
The Indonesian language and the broader Javanese Sundanese language, together with the people’s shift to a more contemporary way of life. While Indonesian is the primary language used for everyday communication, Cirebon, a hybrid dialect of Sundanese and Javanese, is frequently only spoken in particular family or group settings
Cirebonese Variations Language in Cempaka
Categories of language variety types
Lexical: whole word changes. For example, the word “sultry” is changed to “parrot”, which is a new word.
Morphology: A change in word structure. Example: Mlaku → Nlaku, there is a loss or change in remuneration.
Phonological: Phonological: Sounds change. For example, when Sare changes to Sire, the “a” sound changes to “i”.
indonesian | ordinary cirebonan | kelompok muda | kelompok Tua | Types of variation |
makan (eat) | mangan | mangan | nganan | morphological |
tidur(sleep) | sare | sare | sire | phonological |
pergi (Go) | lunga | lunga | mlayu | lexical |
sakit( sick) | gerah | gerah | loro | lexical |
cepat(fast) | cepet | cepet | cebret | phonological |
berjalan (walk) | mlaku | mlaku | nlaku | morphological |