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- 1 2 3 4 Bruce Connell, 1997: Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland Archived 2004-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bung". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
