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- ↑ Borong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Borong (Kosorong) Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.