CREOLE MINANGKABAU LANGUAGE UTTERED BY CHINESE PEOPLE IN PADANG CITY (TIONG PA)

Padang Tionghoa ( Tiong Pa) Language has been proceeded for long time. Tiong Pa Language happened through three ways, they are the mixing of Indonesian, Chinese, and Minangkabau language elements. The three language elements combine together and build a new Minangkabau language variant that is called Tiong Pa language.  This research applies the Distributional Method. The aim of this research is to describe the rules of the vowel, consonant, and diphthong changing in the formation of Padang Tionghoa Language. The result of this research can be contributed  to linguistics field. The result of this research indicates that: (1) the final deletion of vowel /-a/; (2) the medial deletion of vowel /-a-/; (3) the final deletion of /-ah/; (4) the final deletion of consonant /-h/; (5) the medial deletion of vowel /-i-/; (6) the medial deletion of vowel /-e-/; (7) the final changing of vowel /-o/ to /-a/; (8) the medial changing of vowel /-a-/ to /-∂-/; (9) the final changing of diphthong /-ai/ to /-e/; (10) the medial changing of diphthong /-ia-/(/-ai-/) to vowel /-e-/; (11)  the medial changing of /-i-/ to /-e-/; (12) the final changing of diphthong /-ia/ to vowel /-e/; (13) the final changing of diphthong /-au/ to vowel /-o/; (14) the medial changing of vowel /-u-/ to /-o-/; (15) the medial changing of diphthong /-ua-/ to vowel /-o-/; and (16) the medial changing of vowel /-a-/ to /-o-/.