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References
- 1 2 E26 Gowar at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Guwar". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jefferies, Anthony (1 September 2011). "Guwar, the language of Moreton Island, and its relationship to the Bandjalang and Yagara subgroups: a case for phylogenetic migratory expansion?". University of Queensland. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
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