2 research outputs found
The Character Education Meaning on Rites Before Wedding Party in Muna Ethnic of Southeast Sulawesi
The local culture is an important issue to be investigated since it gives much interesting process and great values. Before the wedding party, there are several rites that must be done by Muna ethnic. They are feenaghoo tingguno karete, kafeena, and karompua. Feenaghoo tingguno karete is a delegation of man's parents visits the woman's house to ask about the status of the woman. Kafeena is man's parents delegate their relatives to bring something to woman's house. Last, karompua is a meeting of both families to discuss the time and procedures of the marriage settlement. Data of this study collected through observation and interview and analyzed based on a descriptive qualitative approach. The result of this study shows that three rites have several character education meanings as follow: (1) careful; both man and woman evaluate each other before deciding to get marriage; (2) respectiveness; both families respect each other; (3) togetherness; both families help each other in holding a wedding party as one family and eating together; (4) social norm; man's family always gives something before visiting the woman's house and the woman's family also welcome the man's family attendance with various dish services, and (5) philosophy meaning; in those rites conveyed several Muna's philosophical principles
The Phonology of Landawe Language
This study aims at investigating the phonology of Landawe Language. The data collecting was done by participant speaking and scrutinizing methods. It was analyzed using apportioned methods. Landawe language has 10 vowel sounds, but there are only five sounds proved as vowel phonemes, they are /i, a, e, o, u/. Besides, Landawe language has 18consonant sounds, they are:/b/, /p/, /d/, /t/, /g/, /k/, /Å‹/, /m/, /n/, /s/, /h/, /l/, /r/, /c/ /y/, /j/, /w/, and /Ê”/. Those consonant sounds are proved as the phoneme. Based on the distribution of the consonant, there is not any consonant that places the final position. They just place the initial and the medial of the word, except /Ê”/ and /y/that only place the medial position, and /j/ that only place the initial position. It means that Landawe language is categorized as vocalist language