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In 1977 Budiman Sulaiman wrote Bahasa Aceh Vol.1, a
reading book with grammatical notes and exercises for
schools. The second volume was published in the following
year. The language is based on North Aceh dialect.
At present, Acehnese has adopted a new standard
spelling produced by a team in "Seminar Pembinaan dan
Pengembangan Bahasa Aceh", held by Universitas Syiah Kuala
in 1979. This new spelling is a modification of the spelling
created by Snouck Hurgronje (1893), which had been in used
in many old works. The need for a new standard spelling was
prompted by a chaos of spellings in various writings,
especially in several new "hikayats", reading books, and the
writing of place names and street names. Each author and
person seemed to write in his own way. For example, some
people used [oo] for high-mid back vowel [o] and [ee] for
mid-high front vowel [e]. Some others even confused the
central high vowel [eu] with [ue].
An Acehnese-Indonesian dictionary has also now been
completed by a team from Universitas Syiah Kuala and others.
1.4 A Short Note on Phonology
This section will briefly deal with phonetic inventory,
orthograpy, syllable structure, and word stress. There is
also a subsection which deals with the tradition of writing
borrowed words.