Kekerabatan Bahasa Akit dan Duanu: Kajian Leksikostatistik

Abstract

This study aims to find the kindship relation between Akit language and Duanu language in Riau Province. Data was in the form of Swadesh vocabulary list of eight regional languages Akit observations areas of Akit Language and Duanu language users in Riau Province that was collected using documentation technique and analyzed by applying quantitative descriptive method that followed the steps of transcribing, classifying, comparing, and formulating the research results. Analyzing data was carried out by using lexicostatistics technique. The results that obtained from the research are Akit language and Duanu language are in one family group of language (36-81%). The proximity of APN language and language DSL has a very high closeness (53,5%) Akit Language in Kepulauan Meranti is the same language as Akit language in Hutan Panjang, Bengkalis. Language that is the closest to the farthest with the two languages consecutively as the following APN and DPP language (52,75%), APN and DTP language (51,75%), APN and DSL had the same percentage as APN and DBL (51,5%), ASS and DPP language (51,25%), ASN and DSL language (50,75%),ASS and DSL language (46,5%), AHP and DPP language (44%), ASS and DBL language and ASN and DBL language (42,5%), AHP and DSL language (42%), AHP and DTP (39,5%), AHP and DBL (37%)