Jurnal TUTUR, Vol. 4 No. 2 Agustus 2018 ISSN 2442-3475 ASOSIASI PENELITI BAHASA-BAHASA LOKAL (APBL) 101 REDUPLICATION SYSTEM OF TAMIANG LANGUAGE Devi Pratiwy Faculty of Literature Islamic University of North Sumatra devipratiwy72@gmail.com Abstract Tamiangs is a Malay variant spoken by minority group of speakers in the regency of Aceh Tamiang, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (Aceh Province). Aceh Province is a province in which another language, Acehnese is dominant. It is not like Malay spoken in Malaysian Peninsular which is used widely. Another point, during conducting the research, it was observed that the younger generation appears reluctant to speak in Tamiang language preferring to use Bahasa Indonesia i.e. basa toko learned (taught) in school. They feel that the Tamiang language refer to as basa kampong; is inferior and is a language of villagers (living in outlying areas). It was also observed that Tamiang language is no longer used as their mother tongue. Thus, Tamiang language can be suspected to be unextendable and an endangered language. With this in mind, this study can contribute toward efforts to preserve and enrich existing knowledge on Tamiang language in the field of morphology. It can also serve as a source of reference specifically for an endangered language.This article aims to discuss the reduplication system of Tamiang in relation to how the reduplicated words are formed, and also to describe Tamiang reduplication types, function and the meaning of reduplicated words denote in Tamiang. Descriptive qualitative method was employed to analyze the collected data. The research finding shows that the reduplication systems of Tamiang are formed through free morphemes. There are five types of Tamiang reduplication: Full reduplication, reduplication with affixes, reduplication with sound changes, reduplication of the first consonant, and Onomatopeia. Morphologically, Tamiang reduplication functions to denote class maintaining and class changing. For class changing, Tamiang reduplication forms nominal, verbal and adverbial reduplicated forms. Syntantically, the Tamiang reduplication system appears as subject, verb, object, adjective/complement, and adverb. Semantically, the Tamiang reduplication reveals plural form, intensification, collectiveness, variety, resemblance, reciprocal, and continuity. Keywords: Tamiang Language, Reduplication, functions, forms. Abstrak Bahasa Tamiang adalah varian Melayu yang diucapkan oleh kelompok minoritas di Aceh Tamiang, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (Provinsi Aceh). Provinsi Aceh adalah provinsi di mana bahasa lain, seperti bahasa Aceh yang dominan. Ini tidak seperti bahasa Melayu yang digunakan di Semenanjung Malaysia yang digunakan secara luas. Selama melakukan penelitian, diamati bahwa generasi muda tampak enggan untuk berbicara dalam bahasa Tamiang yang lebih memilih untuk menggunakan Bahasa Indonesia yaitu basa yang diajarkan di sekolah. Mereka merasa bahwa bahasa Tamiang merujuk sebagai basa kampung; inferior, dan merupakan bahasa penduduk desa (tinggal di daerah terpencil). Bahasa Tamiang tidak lagi digunakan sebagai bahasa ibu mereka. Dengan demikian, bahasa Tamiang dapat dicurigai sebagai bahasa yang tidak dapat dielakkan dan terancam punah. Penelitian ini dapat berkontribusi terhadap upaya untuk melestarikan dan memperkaya pengetahuan yang ada tentang bahasa Tamiang di bidang morfologi. Hal ini juga dapat berfungsi sebagai sumber referensi khusus untuk bahasa yang terancam punah.