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- ↑ Alexia Bloch. 2004. Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 193
- ↑ UNESCO 2011. “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger”
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