Muna Language Shifting in Tombula Village

This research aims to find out the language shift phenomenon in Muna Language in Tombula Village and to identify the factors that influence the language shift to occur in Tombula Village especially 3rd Rt. The research design was qualitative research that focused on factual phenomena in the field which related to the problem of participants’ experience. This research focused on condition of language shift phenomenon in several domains based on theory state that there are several domains, such as: domain of family, education, and neighborhoods. The subject of the research was the people who lived in Tombula Village and they were pure Munanese with age around 7 until 50 years old. The data was collected by using observation that was done from December until March 2021, interview was done after confirming with the informants’ permission, and recordings of the interviews as well as conversation was done at the same time. Then, it was analyzed in four steps, they are: data collection; data reduction; data display; and drawing conclusion. It showed that language shift occurs at the group age of children (7-11 years old). Similarly, at the group age of teenagers or adolescents (12-25 years old), some of them used Muna Language and Indonesia Language but the most of them occurred language shifting. Lastly, the group age of adults (26-50 years old) do not experience a language shift. The factors that influence language shift to happen are family domain, social environment, education environment, and globalization. Thus, language shift occurs at the group age of children and some in the group age of teenagers or adolescents which mostly influenced by family domain and education environment.