Tagol language

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Tagol Murut
Native to Malaysia, Indonesia
Region Borneo
Ethnicity50,000 (2015) [1]
Native speakers
20,000 in Malaysia (2015) [1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mvv
Glottolog taga1273

The Tagol Murut language is spoken by the Tagol (highland) subgroup of the Murut people, and serves as the lingua franca of the whole group. It belongs to the Bornean subdivision of the Austronesian language family. Tagol Murut people can be found in Sabah and Sarawak, usually in areas around Sipitang, Tenom, Lawas, Limbang, and along the border areas shared with Brunei and Indonesia.

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Phonology

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced[ b ][ d ]( )[ ɡ ]
Fricative β s h
Rhotic r
Approximant w l j

/dʒ/ occurs only in recent loanwords.

Sounds /β r h/ are heard as voiced stops [b, d, ɡ] in word-initial and word-medial position, when preceded by nasal consonants.

Vowels

Vowels are heard as /i, a, o, u/. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Tagol Murut at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. Prentice, David J. (1971). The Sumambuq dialect. In The Murut Languages of Sabah: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 291–298.