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{{Short description|Austronesian language spoken in Borneo}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Tagol Murut
|nativename=
|states=[[Malaysia]], [[Indonesia]]
|region=[[Borneo]]
|ethnicity=50,000 (2015)<ref name=e25/>
|speakers=20,000 in Malaysia
|date=2015 
|ref=e25
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=[[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]]
|fam3=[[North Bornean languages|North Bornean]]
|fam4=[[Southwest Sabahan languages|Southwest Sabahan]]
|fam5=[[Murutic languages|Murutic]]
|fam6=Northern
|iso3=mvv
|glotto=taga1273
|glottorefname=Tagal Murut
|script=Latin
}}

The '''Tagol Murut language''' is spoken by the [[Tagol Murut people|Tagol]] (highland) subgroup of the [[Murut people]], and serves as the [[lingua franca]] of the whole group. It belongs to the [[Bornean languages|Bornean]] subdivision of the [[Austronesian languages|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]].

== Phonology ==

=== Consonants ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" |
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
![[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|{{IPA link|m}}
|{{IPA link|n}}
|
|{{IPA link|ŋ}}
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Plosive]]/<br>[[Affricate]]
!{{small|voiceless}}
|{{IPA link|p}}
|{{IPA link|t}}
|
|{{IPA link|k}}
|{{IPA link|ʔ}}
|-
!{{small|voiced}}
|[{{IPA link|b}}]
|[{{IPA link|d}}]
|({{IPA link|dʒ}})
|[{{IPA link|ɡ}}]
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Fricative]]
|{{IPA link|β}}
|{{IPA link|s}}
|
|
|{{IPA link|h}}
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Rhotic consonant|Rhotic]]
|
|{{IPA link|r}}
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Approximant]]
|{{IPA link|w}}
|{{IPA link|l}}
|{{IPA link|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/.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Prentice |first=David J. |title=The Sumambuq dialect |publisher=Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University |year=1971 |location=In The Murut Languages of Sabah |pages=291–298}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Bornean languages}}
{{Greater North Borneo languages}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}}
{{Languages of Malaysia}}
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[[Category:Murutic languages]]
[[Category:Endangered Austronesian languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Malaysia]]
[[Category:Languages of Indonesia]]


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