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- ↑ Uneapa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Ross, Malcolm (1998). "Proto-Oceanic phonology and morphology" (PDF). In Ross, M.; Pawley, A.; Osmond, M. (eds.). The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The Culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. Vol. 1: Material Culture. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. pp. 15–36. doi: 10.15144/PL-C152.15 . C-152. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- Lynch, John; Malcolm Ross; Terry Crowley (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1128-4. OCLC 48929366.