Abstract :
Javanese language is the language used by some parts of regional in Java, especially East Java. Two of them are Surabaya and Madiun. The societies use Javanese language to communicate with others in their daily activity. However, they differ in terms of their vocabulary and pronunciation. It is known as Surabaya and MadiunÂ’s dialect.
Those differentiations make the researcher interested to take it as her theme of research. This study is focusing on the differentiation of vocabulary and pronunciation
The instruments used in this study were observation and documentation. The researcher did observation to know the condition of the subject in their daily activity. Besides, the researcher also used documentation as the instrument because the researcher collected the data by using the script of the record taken from recording. Then, the researcher analysed the data and classified the data based on the reseacrh problems.
The results of this study showed that there were fifteen vocabularies which were indicated the differentiation between Surabaya and Madiun societies. The vocabularies included into some parts of speech. They were verb, adjective, adverb, preposition and noun. Besides, there were thirteen pronunciations which were indicated the differentiation between Surabaya and Madiun societies. The differentiation of pronunciation was in some letters, most of them were vowel.