LANGKAWI VARIAN OF KEDAWANG COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM

This paper discusses one of the variants of the Langkawi Malay dialect (DML) found on Kedah, namely the variant of Kedawang (VKDWG). Qualitative methodology through library and field study types is applied.The objective of this paper is to evaluate and restructure phonological aspects that have not been clarified on some studies on DML VKDWG especially in determining the amount of phonemic inventory. Therefore, this study is aimed at touching phonetic and phonological aspects by describing the DML VKDWG phonological system by describing the spread of vocal, diftong, consonant and the presence of alternatives in DML VKDWG. The approach used in achieving the objective of this study is structural approach. The results of the study show that DML VKDWG has eight vowel /i, u, e, o, ɛ, ɔ, ə , a/ have three diphthongs, namely: /-oj, -aw, -aj / and 20 consonant phonemes consisting of seven explosive consonants /p, b, t, d, k, g, dan ʔ/, two consonant affricates /tʃ, dʒ/, four consonant fricatives /s, ç, ɣ, h/, four nasal consonants /m, n, ɲ, ŋ/, one lateral consonant /l/, and semi-vowel /w, j/. The findings of this study are expected to provide a new contribution and complement the previous study in linguistics. In addition, this study also helps to restructure the existence of Malay dialectal of Kedah.