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Tagol language

Tagol language

Austronesian language spoken in Borneo

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

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/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

  1. [1]
    Tagol Murut at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [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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