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- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Guragone". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ N75 Guragone at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Gurr-Goni language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)