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- ↑ Burumakok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Limits of Language, M. Parkvall, 2008. p.66, Small Languages. Accessed 25 April 2018.
- ↑ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.