CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of the Analysis
Language is purely important as a tool of communication. As human beings, it is needed as a medium of communication through which we express our emotions, ideas,
feelings and thoughts to our fellow people. As a member of the society or social group language is used to convey our needs, desires, and everything what someone wants to
express to the society. And also it indicates the existence of human beings. It means that we, as human being can not do our activities without using the language. Whatever we do
in this world, we use language to express everything in our mind, for example: warning someone or requesting something, ect. We can also express what in our mind by using
gesture or body movement, actions signals and sound, for example, if we want to say “no” we can move our head from side to side. So, I predict that language is the means of
communication or sounds, signs, symbols that have meaning. One of the linguistic aspects is concerned with the contrastive analysis. Ridwan
1998:8 state that Analisis Kontrastif adalah suatu metode penganalisisan linguistik yang berusaha mendeskripsikan, membuktikan dan menguraikan perbedaan atau
persamaan aspek-aspek kebahasaan dari dua bahasa atau lebih yang dibandingkan. The use of terms ‘similarity and dissimilarity’ are narrow or limited because those term refer
to the condition if all aspects that are compared are same they can be said ‘similarity’ and vise versa. So, it is advised to use the terms ‘correspondence’, ‘partly-
correspondence’, and ‘non-correspondence’.
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In this occasion, I would like to make the contrast between English and Achehnese in terms of suffixes. It has been known that suffix is one of the affixes.
Katamba 1993:44 says that ‘An affix is a morpheme which only occurs when attached to some other morpheme or morphemes such as a root or stem or base.’
Obviously, by definition affixes are bound morpheme. Nida 1949:6 says that ‘morpheme is the meaningful unit of which language is
composed.’ Affix is concluded bound morpheme because it can not stand alone and must be attached
to the based form. It is also the same with suffix because as it was said above, suffix is one of the affixes.
Katamba 1993:44 says that a suffix is an affix attached after a root or stem or base slow–ly, -er, -ist, -s, -ing and -ed.
For example:
Base form
suffix ENGLISH
big + -er
bigger
ACHEHNESE rayeuk ray
ə’ + -that
Өαt rayeukthat ray
ə’Өαt ‘big’
‘bigger’
English and Achehnese absolutely come from different language families. And also, I come from Achehnese family. Achehnese is one of the native ethnic groups of
Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Indonesia. Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam consists of 21 regencies of local governments that is 17 regencies and 4 municipalities, and 228
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districts with amount of resident 4.075.599 people, do not include foreign citizens, base on Statistic Bureau’s Report of 2004.
Achehnese speakers are mostly live in 5 regencies and 3 municipalities of local governments, they are :
Regencycity Capital
Sub District Village
Population 1.
Aceh Besar
Jantho 22 601
301.575 2.
Pidie Sigli
30 948 469.888
3. Aceh
Utara Lhoksukon
22 852 487.526
4. Bireuen Bireuen 10 541
348.057 5.
Aceh Timur
Idie 21 484
312.014 6.
Banda Aceh
Banda Aceh
9 89 239.146
7. Lhokseumawe
Lhokseumawe 3 68
138.663 8.
Langsa Langsa
3 51 135.167
Source : 2004.Buku Saku NAD 2004. Banda Aceh:Badan Pusat StatistikBPS, NAD And some of Achehnese live in 12 others regencies and 1 other municipality of
local governments, they are : Regencycity
Capital Sub District
Village Population
1. Simeulue
Sinabang 8 135
71.517 2.
Aceh Singkil
Singkil 13 189
144.684 3.
Aceh Selatan Tapak Tuan
16 247
185.704 4.
Aceh Tenggara Kuta Cane
11 250
168.229 5.
Aceh Tengah
Takengon 10 209
285.619 6.
Aceh Barat
Meulaboh 11 321
160.545 7.
Aceh Barat Daya Blangpidie
6 129
111.100 8.
Gayo Lues
Blangkejeren 5 97
68.312 9.
Aceh Tamiang Kuala Simpang
8 209
229.520 10.
Nagan Raya
Jeuram 5 222
110.486 11.
Aceh Jaya
Calang 6 172
79.155 12.
Bener Meriah Simpang Tiga
7 115
13. Sabang
Sabang 2 18
28.692 Source : 2004.Buku Saku NAD 2004. Banda Aceh:Badan Pusat StatistikBPS, NAD
The rest resident of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam are the speakers of the following languages : Gayo, Alas, Tamieng, Jamee, Singkil, Kluet, Sigulai, and Defayan on the
Simeulu island.
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In doing this analysis, I just focus on analyzing suffixes in 5 regencies and 3 municipalities, they are Aceh Besar, Pidie, Aceh Utara, Bireun, Aceh Timur, Banda Aceh,
Lhokseumawe and Langsa. Dealing with the contrastive analysis between English and Achehnese in
affixation process especially in suffixes, the writer is going to answer the question “Are there any correspondences, partly correspondences, and non-correspondences between
English and Achehnese in terms of their suffixes?”
1.2 The Problems of the Analysis