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.
| Tagol Murut | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Malaysia, Indonesia |
| Region | Borneo |
| Ethnicity | 50,000 (2015)[1] |
Native speakers | 20,000 in Malaysia (2015)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mvv |
| Glottolog | taga1273 |
Phonology
editConsonants
edit| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| 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
editVowels are heard as /i, a, o, u/.[2]
References
edit- ^ 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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