| Tagol Murut | |
| States: | Malaysia, Indonesia |
| Region: | Borneo |
| Ethnicity: | 50,000 (2015) |
| Speakers: | 20,000 in Malaysia |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | North Bornean |
| Fam4: | Southwest Sabahan |
| Fam5: | Murutic |
| Fam6: | Northern |
| Iso3: | mvv |
| Glotto: | taga1273 |
| Glottorefname: | Tagal Murut |
| Script: | Latin |
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.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| [{{IPA link|b}}] | [{{IPA link|d}}] | (pronounced as /link/) | [{{IPA link|ɡ}}] | ||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
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 are heard as /i, a, o, u/.[1]