TY - JOUR T1 - Protection and Preservation of Sundanese in Public Spaces AU - Asih, Prihandini AU - Retno Purwani, Sari AU - Tatan, Tawami JO - Research Journal of Medical Sciences VL - 11 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 6 PY - 2017 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1815-9346 DO - rjmsci.2017.1.6 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjmsci.2017.1.6 KW - Protect KW -preserve KW -Sundanese KW -Sundanese-maintenance KW -minority language AB - This study proposes a framework of Sundanese maintenance designed by adopting sociolinguistics perspectives with Hyme’s ethnography of speaking framework as the basis of analysis. In the way of this sense it attempts to discover ways to: protect and preserve Sundanese. Answering the challenges, it involving Sundanese language speaker’s practices, applies qualitative method with observation for data collection and description for data analysis. As a result, this study reveals, a way in which Sundaneses can be protected; through policy establishments and strategies with which Sundanese can be preserved by implementing, Sundanese for social interaction in particular occasion in the society, Sundanese as a communication device in conducting family’s activities, Sundanese names for public spaces with fruitful Sundanese values, empowered Sundanese-maintenance programs of the local community in both virtual and real world. Consequently it is expected that the suggested framework provides prototypical government programs to protect and preserve Sundanese as a minority language in the wave of globalization. ER -