Pengetahuan Generasi Milenial Sunda Perkotaan terhadap Peralatan Dapur Tradisional Sunda

Abstract

Many regional languages in Indonesia are threatened with extinction due to the decreasing number of the younger generations who use the language. There are only 13 regional languages that have more than one million speakers and most of the speakers are older generations. Sundanese language is one of that 13 languages. However, nowadays the Sundanese language is starting to be sidelined and abandoned by the younger generations, especially children. Based on the observations of Sundanese language observers currently, the number of children in Bandung who can speak Sundanese is less than fifty percent. This study aimed to reveal the urban Sundanese millennial generation’s knowledge on the Sundanese vocabulary of traditional kitchen utensils. This study needs to be done since the vocabulary of household appliances is the closest in the home domain. This research uses a quantitative approach with a survey method. The data analysis technique for the research problem is descriptive statistics (crosstab). The results showed that the knowledge of the urban Sundanese millennial generation on the vocabulary of Sundanese traditional kitchen utensils reached an average of 87.17%, which can be categorized as good. Although it is categorized as good, some respondents do not know the name of the kitchen utensils.

Keywords

• millennial generation
• sundanese
• kitchen utensils