Although bahasa Madura plays important roles in developing bahasa Indonesia, the efforts to conserve it
have not been numerously done. One of the indicators of these ―half-hearted‖ efforts are: (1) the small
number of publicized studies of bahasa Madura found in national and university libraries, and (2) the small
amount of bahasa Madura scientific publication titles found in national and university libraries. The result
of this literature study discovers five interesting facts related to bahasa Madura scientific publications
found in four national e-libraries. The facts are: (1) most of the scientific publications focus on the internal
aspects of bahasa Madura such as bahasa Madura morphology, phonology, grammar and syntax. Studies on
the external aspects of the language such as pragmatics, discourse analysis, and so forth are barely to be
found. (2) ―deep‖ scientific publications on bahasa Madura are mostly written by foreigner linguists
(nonMadurese and non Indonesian), (3) most of bahasa Madura scientific studies conducted by Indonesian
people are done because they are funded by government, (4) the developments of bahasa Madura studies
do not have patterns. It results the difficulties to map them into phases, (5) the studies are not influenced by
many trends and issues in linguistics
