Tagol language

The Tagol Murut language is spoken by the Tagol (lowland) 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 Lawas, Limbang, and along the border areas shared with Brunei and Indonesia.

Tagol Murut
Native toMalaysia, Indonesia
RegionBorneo
Ethnicity50,000 (2015),[1] 2,000 Alumbis in Indonesia (no date)[2]
Native speakers
20,000 in Malaysia (2015)[1]
Austronesian
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3mvv
Glottologtaga1273[3]

References

  1. Tagol Murut at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
  2. Tagal Murut at Ethnologue (11th ed., 1988).
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tagal Murut". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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