Consonant Clusters in Manggaraian Name Differentiate Gender: Perspective of Cultural Linguistics

Abstract

This article discusses Consonant Clusters (CC) in Manggaraian
Name (MN). CC constitutes two or more different consonants is
one syllable. In Theory of Cultural Linguistics, CC belongs to
verbal symbols. They are based in cultural imagery of
Manggaraian Language Speakers (MLS). The data were obtained
from observation on MN consisting of Male Manggaraian Names
(MMN) and Female Manggaraian Name (FMN).CC is
homorganly formed from nasal-sonorants-continuants /m/, /n/,
and /ng/ and stop consonant/b/, /p/, /d/, /t/, /g/, /k/, and affricate
consonant /c/ and /j/forming eight CC: /mb/, /mp/, /nc/, /nd/, /nj/,
/nt/, /ngg/, and /ngk/. They occur more in MMN than they do in
FMN. They combine with different vowel frequency. They
include /ngg/, /mb/, /nd/, /mp/, /ngk/, /nt/, /nc/, and/nj/ in MMN,
but /nd/, /mb/, /ngg/, /nt/, /mp/, /ngk/, /nc/, and /nj/ in FMN
respectively. CC differences in MN reflect cultural imagery
difference of MLS on gender. MN has cultural consonant clusters