The aim of this paper is to describe the relationship betweenthe language and the culture on sociolinguistic perspective.As a perspective, its framework is based on several factors,which is outside of the language itself. It has something todo with the society. The social reality becomes very criticalto understand the meaning itself. With this perspective,theories, which have described the relationship between theculture and the language, can be divided into twocategories, namely the subordinate relationship and thecoordinate relationship theories. The first relationshipcorrelates with the view that the culture is the main systemwhereas the language is the subsystem. The second kind ofthe relationship or the coordinative relationship is based onthe understanding that the language and the culture aretwo different systems, which are adopted by human being.The culture is the ruling system of the human interaction,while the language is the system with its function as themean of carrying the continuity of that interaction.