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- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bininj Kun-Wok". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ N186 Bininj Gun-wok at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Evans 2003
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- ↑ "Orthography— how to write words". Bininj Gunwok. Kunwinjku Language Project. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- ↑ Evans 2003 , chapter 2
- ↑ Evans 2003 , chapter 6
