DIALECT VARIATIONS IN MANGKOBAR AT WEDDING CEREMONY

The study deals with the aspects of dialect in mangkobar at wedding ceremony in South Tapanuli. The objectives of the study are to describe the aspects of dialect and to know the reasons of the differences of dialect that used in mangkobar at wedding ceremony in South Tapanuli. Descriptive qualitative was as a research design in this study. The data were analysed by transcribing the utterances of pakkobar in wedding ceremony from two sub-districts. The findings show that the three aspects in dialect are occurred in mangkobar. The three aspects are phonology, lexeme and grammatical aspects. In phonology there are 22 words are different, there are 35 words are different in lexeme and 3 sentences are different in grammar. And the reasons of the differences in dialect that used in mangkobar at wedding ceremony in South Tapanuli are social conflict and geographical origin.