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References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Koko Dhawa". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Y93 Kok Thawa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
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