A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON NOUNS OF GAURA LANGUAGE (A language Spoken In West Sumba)
ABSTRACT The title of this study is “A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON NOUN OF GAURA LANGUAGE (A LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN WEST SUMBA) ”. The aims of this study are to find out the forms of nouns in Gaura. The informants of the research are three native speakers of Gaura language who live in Gaura village.The instrument of collecting data is questionnaire. Dealing with the 60 Indonesian sentences and the writer asks to the informants to translate into the Gaura language, the writer identified the data and classified the nouns based on the forms. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. In analyzing the data, the writer found four forms of noun in Gaura language, they are: (1) concrete : a). Common noun : Ra’ jara do nadi Marten, b). Proper noun : Baba gu ngara nai Timotiusui, c). Collective noun : Olebei gu wali da la Garo and d). material noun : Ole gu koha pahla nage la loko and abstract noun: Na’ toyo mayega nage katena, (2) countable noun : Na’ lakeda malengo nage la pihaka and uncountable noun : Iyo kah nage moh la pahara, (3) singular noun : Na’ boga pala nage la pinya and plural noun : Ra’ hapi mu dage ruba and (4) gender : a) masculine gender : Angwu nai Marten kalete jara nage, b) feminine gender : lawinne nai Natan halako nage la pahara and c). common gender : totu na wo da ni omaha Key Words : Descriptive study , Noun , Gaura Language