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References
- ↑ Dowayo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Doyayo". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)
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