Abstract:
This study aimed to examine the fishery vocabulary in the Hulu dialect of
Banjarese (upper river dialect) at the Central and North Hulu Sungai
Regencies, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Data collection techniques were
carried out by observation, interviews, and recording with 23 native
speakers of the Banjarese language. They were permanent residents in the
study locations, male and female residents aged 25-70, and they knew
about their traditional fishing activities. Semantic analysis was used in
scrutinizing the data. The initial vocabulary data from the informants was
first identified and described. Each lexeme of the fishery vocabulary in the
Hulu dialect of Banjarese was analyzed based on its lexical meaning,
grammatical meaning, and semantic function. The words were then
explained, paraphrased, and further categorized based on their types of
meaning and function. The results showed that the fishery vocabulary of
the Hulu dialect of Banjarese has 30 lexical meanings, comprising 28
nouns and two verbs. They are categorized into five types: (1) fishing gear,
traps, and net, (2) fish containers, (3) fishing bait, (4) fish species, and (5)
fishing activities. The fishery vocabulary in the Hulu dialect of Banjarese
depicts the cultural wealth of these people. These lexemes can be
maintained if the people continue to preserve the use of environmentfriendly fishing gear that depicts their environmental and local wisdom.
