The Dialectal Comparison between Maninjau and Tiku Subdialect: A Lexical Variation

This research aims to compare the Maninjau and Tiku subdialect in order to see the similarities and differences between these two subdialects. This study focuses on the variation of the lexicon used in Maninjau and Tiku subdialect. In this study researchers used descriptive method. This method makes it possible to compare the lexical variation in Maninjau subdialect compared with Tiku subdialect in order to find out the lexical similarities and lexical differences. Therefore, the researcher collected the data through direct observation. The data was collected from the native speakers from different village or kanagarian in this two areas. The instrument used in this research are a recording device and writting tools. From the result of the research on the lexical similarities, it can be concluded that these two subdialects have a close relationship, because these two subdialect are language variation of Minangkabau language. Meanwhile, from the lexical differences, the researcher found that Maninjau subdialect use 69 words which are different with Tiku subdialect to express the same meaning. The lexical differences are found in noun, pronoun, verb and adjective and adverb. These differences are mostly found in noun words.