Sociohistorical Determines

SECTION A: This review is about the Sociohistorical Determines of Language Shift among the Belait Community in the Sultanate of Brunei. Brunei Darussalam is an Islamic Sultanate on northern coast of Borneo with the majority of inhabitants having one form of Malay as a mother tongue. This journal is brief look at language shift among one minority group in Brunei, the Belait group is giving emphasis to the sociohistorical dimension of contact of the group with the coastal population. Although, This journal briefly to examine the historical associations of contact between one of indigenous groups, namely the entity referred to nowadays as “Belait” and the other groups in Brunei, notably the dominant group, the puak Brunei. However, the language shift among the Belait community because of some reason. The reason of the

The important matter is the failure to transmit Belait by parents of their offspring appears to be the final stage of an ongoing process of languages shift. The argument as state on the journal is that most historical changes in languages use are due economic factors such as social access and material advancement, and that these are of central importance of language shift. Moreover, Gal (1978:3) argues that language are associated with social status and activities, changes in language choice can be used by speakers to symbolize changes in their own social status. The majority of Belait Malay group has become totally assimilated into the coastal population and that cultural boundary between the Belait Malay and Malay has completely faded. Apart from that, the Belait language is mostly used in rural areas because rural areas cannot be affected or mixed with other language. In the rural area it has some extent to maintained the Belait