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Everyone knows Aceh. Provinces which is located at the tip of Sumatra island is very well known to the customs and natural wealth. It was said that the province is also known as the province of the people are very devout worship. Is that correct? Please your own thorough!

Actually many unknowns of Aceh. The province seems like a mystery that will not run out until the end of time be revealed later. Many people want to uncover the mystery of Aceh. Not only the people of Aceh itself, but also the people outside Aceh. They seem to be very interested to know more about Aceh. Evidence of their interest on Aceh is the sort of effort to unravel the mysteries of the Acehnese.

One of the unsolved mysteries that seem up to now is about the origin of the name of Aceh. It is said that the name is an abbreviation of Aceh Arabic, Chinese, Endia (India), the Dutch East Indies. However, these abbreviations does not seem to have an obvious source.

Actually related to Aceh's name many experts who have done research. One of the experts who are interested in researching about Aceh is Denis Lombard.

In connection with the name of Aceh, Aceh Lombard said that the new name is called exactly once in Suma Oriental crafted in Malacca around 1950 by the Portuguese Tomé Pires nationality. Lombard went on to say that the word is spelled Achei Aceh. A few years later, in a book written by Barros, entitled Da Asia mentioned that spelling words with Achei Aceh has changed the form of the presence of penyengauan sound at the end of the word, ie Achem. Penyengauan sound is also found in European manuscripts 16th, 17th, and 18th in the European manuscripts in the centuries this word spelled Aceh Achin and Atchin.

In scientific transcription system proposed by LC Damais, said Aceh written Acih. Lombard said that writing the word Aceh with Acih is writing a very appropriate if evaluated scientifically. In this case, Lombard gave the following reasons.

In accordance with the scientific transcription system proposed by LC Damais, writing more appropriate word written Acih Aceh. This paper is most excellent speech revealed today. Each phoneme is recorded with only one letter, and the letter i is better than the letter e to record the second vowel words very close to / i / ....

Furthermore, around the end of the 19th century, before the war that will spill blood all over the northern part of Sumatra, Aceh soil name used to show yag entire area stretching from the northern tip of the island up to an imaginary line connecting Tamiang on the East coast with Barus in West Coast. According to Snouck Hurgronje, residents compare their territory shape roughly resembles the shape of the triangle was jeuèe (traditional winnowing).

In addition to the mystery of the name of Aceh, the province is also still had mystery about the origin of the Acehnese language. Many researchers who have done research. Their results stated that the Acehnese language is related to languages ​​Campa, which is still used in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Hainan, China. Acehnese relationship with Campa languages ​​that exist in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Hainan in China seems to be quite reasonable. Based on historical records, a prince of Campa, SAH Pu Lian (LIN) was expelled from the capital by Vietnamese nation. He then sought refuge in Aceh, and establish a new dynasty (Lombard, 2007: 62). Of course, the establishment of a new dynasty is very influential on the use of language as a communication tool Aceh them.

There are also experts who said that the Acehnese language is related to local languages ​​in Indonesia, such as Arabic, Malay, Indonesian, Sanskrit, Persian, Tamil, Dutch, Portuguese, English and Mon-Khmer language in Southeast Asia.

The above explanation proves that the province actually has always been to have a relationship with outside nations. This of course can not be denied especially if we remember that in the future Aceh Sultan Iskandar Muda had reached its peak.