TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL TREATMENT NIJO ON LIOENDE FLORES ETHNIC ECO-LINGUISTICS PERSPECTIVE

The article aims at giving explanation and describing the environment language phenomenon on Lio Ende Flores ethnic. It relates to the traditional medicinal treatment, which is called as nijo ‘medicinal treatment pray’ for healing the illness of ata ro ‘patient’. The study relates to ecolinguistics that decribe the relationship of interaction, inter-relation, and interpendence between society and its environment. It analizes the nijo tradition that has been done in hereditary by ancestors without learning process. In nijo tradition involves ingredients of flora and fauna describing the characteristics of nijo containing medical ingredients. It uses qualitative descriptive to describe nijo as special characteristics of Lio Ende Flores ethnic that is done by ata bhisa ‘healer’ who has strength and energy for healing the illness. The result of this study shows that ingredients of flora suchs as peda ‘thorny pandanus’, muku ‘red banana’ functions as healing the illness of high blood pressure and also as ru’u base ‘amplification man genitals’. Besides, the fauna that functions as medicine such as taga kamba ‘carabao horn’ and lepe ko ‘firefly’ to heal various illnesses suchs as complication and other illnesses. Nijo text also can function as healing the illness suchs demi doli miu soli demi take miu lake meaning as the request for healing the illness of ata ro ‘patient’. The text only used when praying the ata ro ‘patient’ and can not be used in daily conversation. Keywords: nijo, ru’u, healer, traditional ingredients.