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References
- 1 2 3 4 Angaatiha at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ "Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: agm".
- ↑ Matthew S. Dryer. 2013. Order of Subject, Object and Verb. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://wals.info/chapter/81, Accessed on 2018-03-09.)
- 1 2 Grimes, Joseph Evans (1975). The Thread of Discourse. Walter de Gruyter. p. 40. ISBN 9789027931641.
- ↑ Merritt Ruhlen. "A Guide to the World's Languages, Vol. 1: Classification", 1987, str. 301–378
- ↑ "Angaatiha Language Sample".
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