MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DERIVATIONAL AND INFLECTIONAL AFFIXES IN DAYAK NGAJU SONG LYRICS

The Dayak Ngaju language spoken by indigenous people in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, is facing threats to its use in modern times. To preserve the language, particularly for younger generations, it is important to understand morphology, which is the study of word structure and formation. In this research, the writer delimits her scope only to affixation analysis by using qualitative approach. The writer focuses on finding the derivational and inflectional affixes of Dayak Ngaju language in Dayak folk songs. Derivational affixes create new words from base words, while inflectional affixes change the form of existing words based on their usage in sentences. By analyzing the affixation of the Dayak Ngaju language, this paper aims to gain insights into the language and contribute to language preservation efforts. From this study, it was found that there are 18 total of prefixes, which include prefixes such as {ma-}, {ka-}, {i-}, and {ba-}. The study concludes each prefix has different role in creating words in Dayak Ngaju language.