Murutic languages
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The Murutic languages are a family of half a dozen closely related Austronesian languages
, spoken in the northern inland regions of Borneo
by the Murut people
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The languages are:
Ethnologue includes the Tidong languages
. Tagol Murut is commonly used and understood by a large majority of the Murut peoples.
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...
, spoken in the northern inland regions of Borneo
Borneo
Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....
by the Murut people
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...
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The languages are:
- Murut proper: Okolod, Keningau Murut, Tagol MurutTagol Murut languageThe Tagol Murut language is spoken by the Tagol 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...
, Paluan, Selungai Murut, Timugon Murut - Bookan
Ethnologue includes the Tidong languages
Tidong languages
The Tidong languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken in Borneo by the Tidong and related peoples. They are:...
. Tagol Murut is commonly used and understood by a large majority of the Murut peoples.