Metathesis found in uab Meto verb of Amanuban and Amfo'an dialects on the Book of Mark
ABSTRACT This study discuss about ”A Metathesis Found in Uab Meto Verb of Amanuban and Amfo’an Dialects on the Book of Mark”. The aim of study is: to find out types of metathesis found in Uab Meto verbs of Amanuban and Amfoa’an dialect on the Book of Mark. The researcher used qualitative method and theory suggested by Sona and Budiarta (2018) explained Uab Meto is unique in its verb construction and also interesting to study in terms of meaning. Those verbs have different forms, same meaning and most importantly metathesis was found there. As in Khafidhoh (2019) metathesis is one of the unique phenomena of language and has divided into five types. Namely; pure metathesis in the same syllable, pure metathesis in different syllable, metathesis followed by addition, metathesis followed by omission, and metathesis followed by addition and omission. The data is taken from the Book of Mark on Amanuban and Amfo’an version and was analyzed with using some procedures such as, selecting chapter to be analyzed, next is reading that chapter, identifying Uab Meto verb, and classifying the types of metathesis. After that, analyzing data and making conclusion. The result of this study showed that there were 45 verbs found in Amanuban and Amfo’an dialects which have metathesis. As the result, 11 verbs found as pure metathesis in the same syllable, 19 verbs found as pure metathesis in different syllables, 9 metathesis followed by addition, no metathesis followed by omission, and 6 metathesis followed by addition and omission. Keywords: Metathesis, Uab Meto verb, dialect, the Book of Mark.