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References
- ↑ Faire Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Pamplona Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Pudtol Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Villa Viciosa Agta† (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Villa Viciosa Atta". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages." In Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jun. 1994), pp. 37-72.
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