Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract name : tiara rike tamaya student no. : 1306102020069 department : english education/ s1 title : the dialect differences of gayonese spoken in takengon and gayo lues keywords: gayonese, dialect differences, takengon, gayo lues, morphology, phonology this research is aimed to figure out the dialect differences of gayonese spoken by takengon and gayo lues informants. the frameworks employed are bareiro (1996) and zulfadli (2014). a purposive sampling is applied to get five takengon informants and five gayo lues informants by using descriptive qualitative design. interview and observation are designed as research instruments. the data were obtained by asking 207 words of indonesian swadesh list which has been designed beforehand to the informants and observing the takengon and gayo lues speakers. the results indicated that based on interview and observation, there are 61 distinctive words in which 27 words in lexical aspect, 33 words in phonological aspect, and 1 word in morphological aspect. as morphology and phonology are important language’s science, it might be best to encourage further researchers to deepen their study on dialect of gayo language by having more than two.