Madiun – Kediri Dialect

In general, the people of Madiun – Kediri use two speech levels of Javanese, these are ngoko (low) and kromo (high). Every child is taught by his/her parents to speak kromo to older people. And for daily conversation, they use ngoko, a variety which might be considered rude by speakers from the central Javanese cities of Solo/Yogya. However, in East Java this kind of dialect might be said as the most polite ngoko especially if it is compared to Javanese ngoko in other cities in East Java.

The goal of Madiun – Kediri dialect proejct is to provide a nuturalistic database of Madiun – Kediri dialect which is taken from Madiun – Kediri native speaker recordings.

This project describes phonetic and phonological aspects of the dialect as well as the lexicon of Madiun –Kediri, which differs from the 'standard' Javanese dialect (Solo/Yogya). For example, in Madiun – Kediri, we often find a particle such as /dhék/ in 'dhékingi' , 'dhékbiyen', which in the 'standard' Javanese dialect pronounced /wingi/ and /biyen/ without the word /dhék/. There are also some lexemes in Madiun – Kediri which cannot be found in other Javanese dialects such as panggah 'still' for pancet and lagèk 'progressive modal' for lagi in standard Javanese. Unique expressions for emphasis are also found in the Madiun – Kediri dialect, especially in Nganjuk dialect such as nda, pèh, and lé.