Abstract
This study aimed to identify the dominant gender of role and the types of roles gender in maintain Balinese in Karang Bayan. This study used quantitative descriptive research to analyze data of maintaining Balinese. The numbers of data were three families of interaction analyzed as the data source. The result of data provided that the female is the most prominent Balinese used than the male. The females who speak the Balinese language reach 53.1% and the males have 8.8%. The total of data presents the languages used which concerned with Balinese used. The percentage shown that the Balinese communities prefer speak Sasak language to the Balinese language. The Sasak language used by female was 53.1% and the male reached 73%. The percentage of data indicated Balinese used occurred language shift in the communities Bali in Karang Bayan. Nevertheless, the result of the conversation in three families found the roles of gender refer to the branch of pragmatic used namely vocabulary, hypercorrection, hostility, intensifier, and filler. The most prominent roles are fillers used by the female. The main family use of the Balinese was dominant in pragmatic used by filler that the average was 80%.