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present standard Acehnese spelling is a modification of the
old spelling done by Universitas Syiah Kuala in 1979. Based
on this spelling, the consonants and the vowels are as
follows.
[i]. Consonants
Most of the consonants shown in the previous chart are
used in writing. The consonants that are replaced by other
symbols are the following.
a). Final glottal stop is written as k.
written.
galak for [gala?] 'to like'
rusok for [ruso?] 'rib'
ciriek for [ciria?] 'kettle'
Initial and medial glottal stops in words are not
siat for [si?at] 'a moment'
laot for [la?ot] 'sea'
Deviating from this rule, medial glottal stop will be
used in transcribing some data in this dissertation. This is
necessary to help the reader who is not familiar with
Acehnese to read correctly the words that may cause
problems. For example, beuet represents two different words
in Acehnese: the one-syllable word beuet ([bu/at]) 'to read
Quran, to study religion' and the two-syllable word beu?et