Vowel adaptations of Indonesian loanwords into dialects of Acehnese: Reinforcing Acehnese identity

Acehnese, like other regional languages throughout Indonesia, is in constant and intense contact with Bahasa a lingua franca of Indonesia. Not surprisingly, many Indonesian loanwords are flooding into Acehnese. There some interesting sound changes affecting both consonants vowels, phonotactics, stress. This paper explores the vowel occurring when used within dialects A list 285 well-established was compiled recorded from native speakers each four main Acehnese (North Aceh, Pidie, Greater West Aceh). The informants were lecturers or postgraduate students fluent bilingual selected dialect Indonesian. Phonemic transcriptions compared their correspondences. results this study show that behaviour vowels not simple case phonological assimilation, as usually occurs loanword phonology, but rather often exhibits dissimilation must be an expression identity. In particular, high back unrounded /ɯ/ salient found wide range frequently replaced by vowel, resulting sounding distinctively conditions such occur discussed paper.