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Atjeh." At that time, school curricula had just been
modified to include the local regional language as a subject
in schools in every region or province throughout the
country. As a result, there was a pressing need for
textbooks. To fill this need, the first Acehnese grammar
book for elementary schools, Tatabahasa Atieh. by Djauhari
Ishak, was published in Banda Aceh. This was followed by his
Dleumpa I-VI (1972), reading books. The dialect of the
author is West Aceh.
In 1971, a collection of Acehnese proverbs, Hadih Madia
(Proverbs) by M.Hasjim, M.K. was published in Banda Aceh. It
contains more or less a thousand proverbs and wise words.
The first non-textbook work, which was written based on
research, was my master's thesis, Aflehnese Morphology (219
pages), written at IKIP Malang in 1972. (The thesis is in
English.) This thesis is based on North Aceh dialect, which
is my dialect. Although the main focus was on the morphology
of the language, a long section was also devoted to the
phonology of the language, which was analyzed based on the
phonemic approach. The most important parts of the
morphological discussions are chapters I through IV, which
deal with free forms, bound forms, and morphophonemics.
There is an appendix of onomatopoetic words, given in the
form of a diagram and symbols. It contains more or less a
thousand onomatopoetic words, which can only be read with a
key given there. Asyik (1978b) was written based on this
source.