huehehe, yak saya setuju 100% dengan pendapat mas Satrio
untuk kasus Timor Leste ini.
---( IM )---------------------------
{ ditakdirkan menjadi keturunan bangsa yang
tidak berbakat menjadi penjajah yg. profesional :) }
--- In Satrio Arismunandar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Kalau nggak suka sama Bahasa Indonesia, karena dianggap bekas
penjajah, seharusnya switch ke bahasa Inggris saja sebagai bahasa
dunia. Ngapain juga belajar bahasa Portugis yang jumlah penggunanya
sangat sedikit. Portugal di Eropa juga bukan tergolong negara yang
sangat maju. Dengan bahasa Inggris, paling tidak akses ke pergaulan
dunia jauh lebih luas....
> Inilah jika pilihan bahasa terlalu melihat aspek politik dan
romantisme, bukan pendekatan praktis-pragmatis.
>
> Satrio Arismunandar
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>
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> "If you know how to die, you know how to live..."
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: imuchtarom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:05:48 PM
> Subject: [ppiindia] dilema bahasa di Timor Leste
>
>
>
> * apa ya bahasa Indonesianya "dilema"? :-)
>
> sewaktu Timor Leste dijadikan "koloni" RI di tahun 1975,
> tentu saja bahasa Indonesia dijadikan bahasa resmi, dan
> bahasa Portugis dilarang. Maka ketika sekitar 25 tahun
> kemudian Timor Leste Merdeka, hanya sedikit orang Timor
> Leste, terutama generasi tua nya, yang masih menguasai
> bahasa Portugis.
>
> Padahal Timor Leste sudah mencanangkan bahasa Portugis
> ( + bahasa Tetum ) sebagai bahasa resmi/nasional. Pada
> saat transisi ini, masih dijumpai banyak kesulitan untuk
> melaksanakan ketentuan tersebut, bahkan di ruang pengadilan
> pun orang terpaksa menggunakan proses penerjemahan, yang
> setiap kali harus *-switch-* antara 3 bahasa: Tetum,
> Portugis, dan Indonesia.
>
> ---( IM )----------- --------- --------- --------- -------
>
> <http://www.iht. com/articles/ 2007/07/23/ asia/timor. php>
>
> ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------
> A Babel for East Timor as language shifts to Portuguese
> ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------
>
> By Seth Mydans
> Published: July 23, 2007
>
>
> DILI, East Timor: The rumble of a generator and the whir
> of ceiling fans muffled the quiet words of a judge as he
> questioned a witness in a murder trial one recent hot,
> still afternoon.
>
> But even if they could have heard him, most of the people
> sprinkled through the little courtroom - including the
> defendant and the witnesses - could not have understood
> what he was saying.
>
> The judge was speaking in Portuguese, the newly designated
> language of the courts, the schools and the government -
> a language that most people in East Timor cannot speak.
>
> The most widely spoken languages in this former Portuguese
> colony are Tetum, the dominant local language, and Indonesian,
> the language of East Timor's giant neighbor.
>
> For a quarter of a century, Portuguese had been a dying tongue,
> spoken only by an older generation. It was banned after Indonesia
> annexed the territory in 1975 and imposed its own language.
>
> In a disorienting reverse, a new Constitution reimposed
> Portuguese after East Timor became an independent country
> in 2002. The marginalized became mainstream again and the
> mainstream was marginalized.
>
> Linguistic convenience was sacrificed to politics and sentiment.
> In a nation that had never governed itself and had few cultural
> symbols to unite it, this language of resistance to the Indonesian
> occupiers was an emblem - particularly to the older generation -
> of freedom and national identity.
>
> The choice has brought a tangle of complications, disenfranchising
> a generation of Indonesian speakers and introducing a new language
> barrier to the country's many other problems.
>
> Along with a struggle to provide health care, education, government
> services, jobs and even food for its people, this destitute nation
> is now on a crash course to learn its own language, importing scores
> of teachers from Portugal to help.
>
> "I have finished two levels of Portuguese, but I still don't
> speak it well, just basic Portuguese," said Zacharias da Costa,
> 36, a lecturer in conflict management at National University
> of East Timor.
>
> Within five years, according to the government's plan, he
> will be required to teach all his courses in Portuguese, a
> language that is hardly heard on the campus here.
>
> An official bulletin board at its entrance carries 14 notices
> from teachers. Eight are written in Tetum, four in Indonesian
> and two in English. None are in Portuguese.
>
> For all its awkwardness, East Timor's experience is not uncommon,
> Robert Kaplan, a senior co-editor of the journal Current Issues
> in Language Planning, said in an interview by telephone.
>
> The imposition of new national languages happens when countries
> are colonized, and it happens when they decolonize, he said. And
> sometimes, as in East Timor, it happens once more when they
> decolonize again.
>
> East Timor's language problems are those of many countries
> that decree a language shift - complicating the daily business
> of the nation and cutting off its people from their history and
> literature, written in what will one day become an alien language.
>
> In Azerbaijan, for example, a former Soviet republic that is
> now fully independent, a simple change in alphabet, from Cyrillic
> to Roman, has created a new class of illiterates.
>
> East Timor's courts are among the hardest-hit institutions.
> Translations back and forth among Portuguese, Tetum and Indonesian
> produce a game of telephone in which testimony is often distorted,
> outside monitors say.
>
> During a just-completed parliamentary election, news conferences
> were held in four languages, sometimes producing somewhat different
> versions of the news.
>
> At the newspaper Timor Post, which is printed in English, reporters
> said they could not read government news releases in Portuguese, so
> they ignored them.
>
> The reported number of Portuguese speakers in East Timor varies
> widely, perhaps because of different methods used in surveys and
> perhaps because of the effects of the current language training
programs.
>
> The United Nations reported in 2002 that only 5 percent of the
> population of 800,000 spoke Portuguese. In the 2004 census, 36
> percent said they had "a capability in Portuguese," said Kerry
> Taylor-Leech, a linguist at Griffith University in Australia,
> who has written about the languages of East Timor.
>
> "Since the 1990s you'll see that a language shift has taken place,"
> she said. "The changes from what I see are taking place quite rapidly."
>
> According to the census, 85 percent claimed a capability in Tetum,
> 58 percent in Indonesian and 21 percent in English.
>
> The new Constitution names Portuguese and Tetum as the country's
> two official languages, but Tetum is seen as thin and undeveloped,
> and most of the nation's official business is conducted in
> Portuguese.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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