The Comparative Analysis of Social Dialect of Minangkabaunese used by Employees and Labourers in Padang

Social dialect is a branch of dialectology discusses variation of language used in the matter of social socio-economic background and educational background. Because of that matters, it turns out to cause linguistic phenomena in the use of language which is one of the symbols as a determinant of social status. Most researchers have studied variation of language used due to social status that discussed the language variety. Meanwhile in this research the variation of language used is discussed in three aspect such as different diction, different pronunciation and different suprasegmental (stress) between employees and labourers in Padang.The method used in this research was by provoking the informant to utter the words researcher intended by using interview guideline.The data are words that are explained in comparative description form.The result of this research are 5 types of different diction, 3 types of different pronunciation with the same diction and 3 types ofdifferent stressed sound with the same diction used by employees and labourers in Padang.