The Characteristics of Javanese Language in Blora Dialect (Audrizan Wahyu Suprapto, Didit Kurniadi, Eko Heriyanto) 208 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF JAVANESE LANGUAGE IN BLORA DIALECT Audrizan Wahyu Suprapto 1) , Didit Kurniadi 2) , Eko Heriyanto 3) Language and Culture Faculty of AKI University Email: audrizanwahyusuprapto@gmail.com ABSTRACT Indonesia is a country that has many regional languages. The diversity of regional languages is a characteristic of Indonesia. One of them is the Javanese language which is used by the Javanese people and has a variety of dialects. Therefore, the writer is interested in conducting research on the characteristics of the Javanese dialect of Blora in accordance with sociolinguistic studies that examines the relationship between language and its speaking community. This is similar to the writer aim to analysis the differences between Blora, Temanggung and Mojokerto dialects. The writer also analyzes the use of Javanese speech level used by the people of Blora. This is because there are still many people who do not know the geographical location of Blora City. In this study, the writer uses a qualitative descriptive method and the data collection methods needed to analysis the data are simak method and cakap method. The analysis results showed that there are characteristics of the Blora dialect and there are differences between Blora, Temanggung and Mojokerto dialect. It can be concluded that the variations of the three dialects have different morphology, phonology, lexical and semantics. This is due to the diversity of dialect differences from the results of regional observations. Keywords: Sociolinguistics, Javanese language, Dialect 1. Introduction Language is a verbal expression that can be understood among human being. This opinion is related to Choudhury (2014, p.1), who stated that language is a means of expression. We express our feeling, emotional, thoughts, needs, desires etc. Language science consists of several branches of knowledge, there are, phonetic phonology, morphology, syntax, semantic, and pragmatics. For this reason, linguistic studies itself has many field specifications and sub-derivatives that specialize in studying elements of language in more depth. Regional language is the naming of the language used by groups of people whose members show a relatively higher frequency of interaction between them compared to those who do not speak the regional language (Zulfahita et al., 2019). Indonesia has various regional languages. One of them is Javanese language. Javanese language is one of the languages used by the people of Indonesia. Javanese language has various kind of dialects. There are Semarang dialect, Pekalongan dialect, Blora dialect, Kudus dialect, Pati dialect, East Javanese dialect, etc. According to Junaidi et al (2016), dialect is a variation of a standard language characterized by regional or regional language variations and is a