Tagol language

Tagol Murut
Tagol Murut
Native to	Malaysia, Indonesia
Region	Borneo
Ethnicity	50,000 (2015)
Native speakers	20,000 in Malaysia (2015)
Language family	Austronesian Southwest Sabahan Murutic Northern Tagol Murut; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mvv
Glottolog	taga1273

The Tagol Murut language is spoken by 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
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	[b]	[ d ]	(dʒ)	[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]

References

^ ^a ^b Tagol Murut at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ 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.

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[e25-1] Tagol Murut at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[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.

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