The Murutic languages are a family of 15 closely related Austronesian languages and 21 dialects, spoken in the northern inland regions of Borneo by the Murut people. Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... 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. ... The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages used by some 351 million speakers. ... The Borneo-Philippines languages (or Outer Hesperonesian or Outer Western Malayo-Polynesian languages) are a branch of the Austronesian family which include the languages of the Philippines, much of Borneo, the northern peninsula of Sulawesi, and Madagascar, as outlined in Wouk and Ross (2002). ... 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. ... Borneo (left) and Sulawesi. ... The Murut are an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting northern inland regions of Borneo. ...

The family is divided between lowland and highland groups, "Tagol" and "Timugon". The Tagol Murut language is commonly used and understood by a large majority of the Murut.