Abstract:
The aims of this research are to find out the types of words formation in the
language used by transgender community in Medan city and to find out the most
dominant types of words formation in language in transgender. This research
employs qualitative descriptive research method in which the researcher involves
the key instrument the data from the very beginning up to the end of process of
the study. The subject of this research is a member of transgender, the member of
transgender is two persons, they aged 23 years old and can communicate by using
transgender language. The result of the research is being the data 404 words. They
areborrowing, coinage, blending, derivation, acronym, multiple process,
reduplication, morphophonemic process, and irregular form its types of word
formation in the language using by transgender. Borrowing is a dominant of word
formation in this subject research with amount 164 words
