Ethnolinguistic Study of the Medicinal Plant Lexicon in Gayo Tribes Aceh Province
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ethnolinguistic, lexicon, medicinal plants, gayo, tribesAbstract
Gayo tribes inhabit central aceh, gayo lues, bener meriah, and surrounding regions, possessing a distinct language and traditions, including extensive knowledge of medicinal plants. Gayo language contains specialized lexicon related to flora (particularly medicinal plants), reflecting local wisdom and the intrinsic connection between language and environment. Therefore the purpose of the study is to inventory gayo language terms for medicinal plants, including their meanings, classifications, and applications in traditional medicine. The study employed qualitative ethnolinguistic approach combines among descriptive linguistics with ethnographic fieldwork. The sample involved 30 respondents from various of ages, profession, education levels and sex. The study focuses on semantic analysis, cultural context, and language-culture interrelations and data analysis used Fieldworks Language Explorer (Flex). The study discovered four major themes emerged from the thematic data analysis: (1) Discovery of 83 undocumented gayo plant names, (2) compound words dominate, (3) rituals context and (4) therapeutic used
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