LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION OF THE BALINESE MELUKAT RITUAL: A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31004/ijisk.v3i4.512Keywords:
Balinese ritual, language documentation, lexicon, syntacticAbstract
Melukat is a spiritual practice of self-purification that represent the tradition of Balinese people and becomes a cultural identity. Currently, melukat has become a new tourist attraction in Bali, which is famous as spiritual tourism. At the same time, tourism plays a vital role in supporting the preservation of the tradition. Responsible tourism helps raise global awareness, educates visitors about Balinese values, and strengthens cultural identity. This study aims to preserve the cultural heritage by documenting the existing lexicon used during the melukat procces. In addition, this research describes the lexical meaning, and cultural meaning on ritual of melukat as well as the syntactic structure. The method used in this research is a descriptive explanatory method in qualitative form. The data source in this research is taken from the book of melukatritual by Arwati (2005) which was chosen because it contains a lexicon about melukat ritual needed in the study. The data were obtained by using the direct techniques in the form of observation and documentation. The lexical and cultural meanings were identified in this study based on word forms and phrase forms, while the syntactic structure identify based on the phrase and clause structures. The result shows that there was lexicon which classified into noun, verbs, adjective and adverb. The syntactic structure was found in the form of basic word order SVO, SOV, and VSO. By preserving melukat as spiritual tourism wisely, Bali can protect the environment and ensure the living tradition continues to thrive for future generations.
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