Abdul Gani Asyik is an Acehnese-language linguist from North Aceh and a former lecturer in English education at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP), Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh. His 1972 thesis at IKIP Malang, Atjehnese Morphology, Pase Dialect, studied the Pase dialect and divided Acehnese into four dialects, revising Snouck Hurgronje's earlier classification. He later wrote the dissertation A Contextual Grammar of Acehnese Sentences at the University of Michigan (1987), one of the most-cited English-language descriptions of Acehnese sentence structure. In 2023 he was a resource person at the Acehnese Vocabulary Workshop held by the Aceh Provincial Language Office for its dictionary project, defending the diacritic spelling that goes back to Hoesein Djajadiningrat's Acehnese–Dutch dictionary (1934). His work matters for documenting Acehnese dialects and standardising its orthography.