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Abstract

This study aims to describe patterns of Indonesian language errors produced by a Russian speaker in social media content on the @marielle.world account and to identify the factors contributing to these errors. This descriptive qualitative study examined five posts, comprising one Instagram post and four TikTok posts. Data were collected using non-participant observation and note-taking techniques and analyzed through a five-stage language error analysis procedure. The findings identified 68 instances of deviation, classified into two analytical categories. First, 28 non-native errors resulted from interference and incomplete mastery of Indonesian linguistic rules, predominantly phonological errors (22 instances), followed by the omission of the meN- prefix and incomplete sentence elements. Second, 40 instances represented informal register features and code-switching that are also commonly produced by native speakers and were therefore not classified as interference errors. Distinctive non-native patterns included the addition of the phoneme /g/ after the velar nasal /ŋ/, reflecting Russian phonotactic interference, and unstressed vowel changes associated with akanye and ikanye. These findings demonstrate the persistence of first-language phonological interference alongside the acquisition of Indonesian colloquial register.

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