Language Variation of Coastal Community in Mandailing Natal, Sumatra Utara

Abstract

The research deals with language variation of coastal community in Mandailing Natal, Sumatra Utara. Which is mainly aimed to investigate the factors of language variation in coastal language in Mandailing Natal and to describe the dialect and idiolect used by coastal community teenagers in Mandailing Natal. This research applied qualitative research design in which the data was collected through doing an observation at Tabuyung village and having an interview with teenagers coastal community and also with five village chief. The results of this study were indicated there are three factors that influence language variations in coastal community in Mandailing Natal, namely the educational background, the environmental influences and the age differences. And there are three dialects used by coastal community teenagers in Mandailing Natal, which are regional dialects, social dialects and temporal. Then there is the use of idiolect by coastal community teenagers in Mandailing Natal, which can see on gender and age.