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- ↑ "Iltyem iltyem". Iltyem iltyem. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ↑ Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 60
