AN ANALYSIS OF TABOO LANGUANGE IN THE CULTURE OF THE GAYO COMMUNITY, CENTRAL ACEH REGENCY (A Descriptive Qualitative in Gayo Lut Community)

Taboo language is part of the culture, in general taboo is a language that is forbidden to speak because it is considered taboo or forbidden. Taboo language its self can be described in the form of words that can hurt, insult, shock, disrespect or be rude. This taboo language is often used by a speaker both personally and interpersonally. This study aims to find out what the definition of taboo languages in the culture of gayo lut community Central Aceh and to find of What are the taboo languages and the cultural meanings, values contained in these taboo languages of the Gayo people of Central Aceh Regency. This study used interview open-ended for gathering data and used a descriptive qualitative design in order to analysed data. Data collection was carried out to 9 informants selected by purposive sampling. samples taken from 3 sub-districts where there are still many people who use the Gayo language and are very thick with customs and culture, Namely Kebayakan sub-district with 3 people, Bebesen sub-district with 3 people, Lut Tawar sub-district with 3 people. The data analysis technique used is to collect as much data as possible, check the validity of the data, describe all the data, analyse the data from interview informants, to check the truth of the data obtained from informants and to draw conclusions. The results of this study indicate that 41 taboo languages were found, then these taboo words were divided into two groups of taboo words, namely taboo words and taboo words which became taboo because of the situations and conditions that caused these words to become taboo.