Vocabulary System in Health Concept of Tonsawang Community

Abstract

Tonsawang community who live in Tombatu District has its own language, which is Tonsawang Language, however its culture is part of Minahasa Culture. In the Tonsawang community live and develop social systems and culture that maintained by its members. Behind it, there is also a tendency language that is not maintained which is the language. Tonsawang Language as well as other sub-ethnic languages in Minahasa, seems to be no longer inherited to children, so the language is feared to be extinct because in the language recorded traditional cultures, so the traditional culture is feared to changed, is also no exception in the system of Traditional Medicine. The formulation of the problem in this study covered three things, namely the system of disease according to Tonsawang Language, etiology of disease according to the belief of Tonsawang community, and the traditional system of medicine in Tonsawang community. The method used in this study was descriptive qualitative method and analysis as suggested in the ethnoscience study. In the data collection used among others, interview techniques, observation, and participation and in analyzing the data classification techniques as suggested by sturtevant was used. The results of this study showed that the system of naming the types of disease consists of three types, namely by basic vocabularies basic, words with affixes, and phrase form. Basic Vocabulary forms are used when they are nouns, and generally tend to be disease suffered by community, especially skin diseases. The way of classifying the disease is based on the location of disease such as types of stomachache, inflammation on the respiratory tract, head, nose, ears, mouth and specially skin.