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- ↑ Vydrin, Valentin (1 December 2013). "Goo : présentation d'une langue" (PDF). Mandenkan (in French) (50): 171. doi:10.4000/mandenkan.293 . Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ↑ Goo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- 1 2 Valentin Vydrin (2013) Goo, an unknown language of Côte d'Ivoire Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
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