APPLICATION FOR LEARNING JAVANESE LANGUAGE OF BANTEN USING KNUTT MORRIS PRATT ALGORITHM

Abstract

The diversity of regional languages that exist in Indonesia is a cultural richness that must be preserved. This regional language is used as a language of conversation in everyday life in addition to Indonesian. One of them is the Javanese language of Banten that is used as the daily conversation language in Serang, Cilegon and a small part of Tangerang where the three regions are part of Banten province. This language has its own characteristics that distinguish it from the Javanese language and Sundanese. Today Javanese language of Banten is still have a lot of speakers but conservation efforts must be done because the number of speakers of this language will continue to decrease due to eroded by the times. Generally the local language is more dominated by the parents, while the children and grandchildren in this modern life are more often use the Indonesian language as well as foreign languages. Therefore as one of the preservation of this language, it is necessary to build a learning application. This learning applications is built on mobile devices that use Android operating system because the number of Android users is greater than the number of other mobile operating system user. The Javanese language of Banten learning application using Knutt-Morris-Pratt Algorithm to find string of words or sentences of Indonesian language that will be searched the equivalent of words or sentences into the Javanese language of Banten. Searching words or sentences with this algorithm is faster than the usual way of searching. The use of Knutt-Morris-Pratt algorithm within the app can increase the performance of the application.