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- ↑ Balaesang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 1 2 Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoli languages: General information and word lists. Pacific Linguistics. Vol. 511. Canberra: The Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-511.
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