Tagol Murut language
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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. Murut Tagol usually lives in borneo area around lawas and limbang. Most of the murut tagol is located in Sabah and Sarawak.
Murut people
The Murut is the warrior tribe of indigenous ethnic groups inhabiting northern inland regions of Borneo. The Murut comprise several people groups that are scattered in parts of Borneo Island including Brunei, Kalimantan...
, and serves as the lingua franca
Lingua franca
A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother tongue, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both mother tongues.-Characteristics:"Lingua franca" is a functionally defined term, independent of the linguistic...
of the whole group. It belongs to the Bornean
Bornean languages
The Bornean languages are the Austronesian language families indigenous to the island of Borneo, with the exclusion of Ibanic and other Malayic languages....
subdivision of the Austronesian
Austronesian languages
The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia that are spoken by about 386 million people. It is on par with Indo-European, Niger-Congo, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the...
language family. Murut Tagol usually lives in borneo area around lawas and limbang. Most of the murut tagol is located in Sabah and Sarawak.