Ciencias: Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pendidikan Volume 5 No. Juli 2022, 93-99 Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pendidikan http://ejournal. id/index. php/ciencias/index Clitic in Meto Language Markus Dimu Radjaa. Hendrik Maub. Oce Antipas Langkamengc Universitas Persatuan Guru 1945 NTT, mardyradja@gmail. SMP Negeri 6 Amarasi, hendrikmau21@gmail. Universitas Persatuan Guru 1945 NTT, newoce082@gmail. Info Artikel Abstrak ________________ Sejarah Artikel: ___________________________________________________________________ Abstrak Tulisan ini berkaitan dengan analisis klitik dalam bahasa Meto. Tujuannya penulisan ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi bentuk-bentuk klitik dari Bahasa Dawan dialek Amanatun. Metode penelitan yang diguanakan adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif. Penulis memilih 5 informan dalam mengumpulkan data. Instrumen pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan kuisioner. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa klitik dalam bahasa Dawan dialek Amanatun terdiri atas proklitik, yang meliputi . -], . -], dan . -] serta enklitik, yang meliputi [-ku. , [-ku. dan [-ku. Diterima: 5 Juni 2022 Direvisi: 15 Juli 2022 Disetujui: 27 Juli 2022 ________________ Keywords: clitic, meto language, ____________________ Abstract This writing deals with Analysis of Clitic in Meto Language. The aims of this writing to identify forms of clitic in Amanatun dialect and determined the meaning of of clitic in Amanatun dialect. Due the topic this writing is conducted by using descriptive method. To obtain the data, the writer took the native speakers of Meto Language in Santian Village. In finding the data the writer took five informantas. In collecthing the data, the writer used questionnaire as the The result, of the writing concluded that the clitic on Amanatun dialect of Meto Language, consist of two parts: Proclitic and Enclitic. Proclitic covering . -], . -] and . -]. Enclitic [-ku. , [-ku. and [-ku. A Alamat korespondensi: Kampus FKIP. Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan i/40. Kota Kupang E-mail: fkip. j3p@gmail. p-ISSN: 2621-3087 e-ISSN: 2621-5721 Ciencias: Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pendidika. Volume 5. No. Juli 2022, 93-99 INTRODUCTION There are thousands of languages spoke by human in the world. One of the languages is Meto Language wich is spoken by the thousands Meto ethnic. It is a vernacular language spoken by people in traditional domain of Uab Meto in Meto area. Meto language is one of the languages in East Nusa Tenggara. It is spoken by people who live in four regencies, namely: South Central of Timor Regency. North central of Timur Regency. Belu Ergency and Kupang Regency. (Tarno, dkk. Meto language has ten dialects such as: Manule dialect. Biboki dialect. Miamafo dialect. Sabun dialect. Amanatun dialect. Amanuban dialect. Molo dialect Amarasi dialect. Kupang dialect and Manulai dialect. Meto language is a language of unity within ethnic groups. Therefore, it is dominantly use to show the identity of Meto Although Meto people are geographically isolated among other, but they are the same linguistically and culturally. The speak the same language, so if the people meet each other for the first time, they are easily to recognize by the language that they spoken. Meto language is also used in other aspect of life of Meto speakers as in ritual ceremonies and religious worship. Moreover, the Old Testament and the New Testament of holly Bible has been translated into Meto language, songs and poems are written in Meto language (Middlekop, 1999:. The population of Meto speakers approximately 600. people (Parera, 1991: 188. Sanga, 1989 :1. Tarno, dkk 1992:. Parera . says that Meto Language comes from the original words, that are Uab means language and Meto are people of Atoin Meto means that the language is spoken by the people in their daily According to Bloomfield, morpheme is a linguistics form which bears no partial phonetic semantic resemblance to any another form, is a simple from a morpheme . anguage, 161, 1. Whereas Hockett American linguistics defined that morpheme is the smallest individual meaningful elements in the utterances of a language (Hockett. clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristic of a word, but shows evidence of beings phonologically bound another word. Two of the founders of the modern disciple. Sausure and Bloomfield in Wardhaugh . 5: . steta that most linguistic have maintained that clitics itself canAot be observed, all that we can possible hope to observe are the consequences of clitics. The important consequences are those that make same kind of differences to the structure of a At any particular time, it certainty may possible for linguistics to observed variation in language, but that variation is of little importance. According to what stated by sausure and Bloomfield in Wardhaugh . about language clitics, the writer intends to conduct research in Meto language in order to know and also describe the clitics forms of Meto Language to the readers. Ciencias: Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pendidika. Volume 5. No. Juli 2022, 93-99 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE The General View of Morphology Morphology is the sub field of linguistic that studies the internal structure of word and interrelationship among words (Akmajin. Et al, 1989:. It deals with morphemes as smallest meaningful unit of word to which morpheme are combined to build grammatical content. There are two types of morphemes which are commonly know in morphology namely morphology construction and Morphology construction reflects a recognition of two principles words building process, inflection and derivational. AuInfections are morpheme that signal the grammatical variants of a word. the inflectional Aes at the end of ideas indicates that the noun is plural. the inflectional Aes at the end of makes indicates that the verb is the third person singular. Derivational morphology: Derivational morphology changes the meaning of words by applying derivations. Derivation is the combination of a word stem with a Morphology process is devised by which constituent word of paradigm are differentiated to from one another (Block and Trager, 1992:. The Clitics Nida . 7: . in her book says that clitics is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics off a word but shows evidence off being phonologically bound to another Depending on whether affix is attached to the beginning off word or the end off word, we will have their prefixes or suffixes addition to the stems in the most common morphologically process or affixes is a part off morphological study that belongs to grammar. A clitic is a morpheme which only occurs when attached to several syntactic categories of words such as head noun, non- head noun, preposition, verb, or adverb, (Katamba, 1993: . Functionally, the clitics attached to the edges of words, outside of derivantional and inflectional of affixes. The inflectional affixes . show the inflectional of affixes (Katamba, 1989: . The classification of clitics in general, consists of proclitic and enclitic. Proclitic Proclitic is occurring at the beginning of a morpheme. Prefix as affix attached before a root like: . is-], . n-], . is-], . n-], and . r-]. In English for example: . is- communicatio. , . n-direc. , . is-advantag. , [ un-happ. , . Enclitic Enclitic is a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word as like: [-l. , . , [-in. , [-e. In English, for example: . ind-l. , . , [ jump-in. , . alk-e. Clitics in Meto Language. Clitics in Meto Language devided into two kinds. There are proclitic and enclitic. -], [ n-], . -]. The forms of proclitic in Meto Language consists of three parts based on the personal pronoun that used in the unterance on the sentence. Examples: Au aen Ho maen Hit taen - I am running. - you are running. - we are running. When we added proclitic to the verb and adjective it will not change the class of word but it and indicates the actor or the doer. Enclitics, the forms of the enclitics in Meto Language shows by the add of [-ku. , [-ku. , and [-ku. on the end of the verbs. Examples: Au naokuk neo lene = I am going to the garden. Hom mnaokum neo lene = you are going to the In naokun neo lene = he/she is going to the Ciencias: Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pendidika. Volume 5. No. Juli 2022, 93-99 REASEARCH METHOD The method used in this study is descriptive study because it is designed to again information about the condition or status of existing phenomena. In this research, the writer used descriptive qualitative method to describe Clitics in Meto Language. In carrying out this research, the writer writer took five informants to translate a list of words or sentences from Indonesian into Meto Languge. The criteria used to choose the informants were suggested by Nida . , namely: . The informants are about thirty years old, because in this age they have been mature in mastering their own Native Language. The informants are able to communicate in Indonesian language. They are healthy in mentally and physically. There were some procedures used after obtaining the data, namely: the writer identified clitics in Meto Language, then classified them to determine each type of Finally, the writer described the forms of clitics in Meto Language. DISCUSSION