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- ↑ Iha at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ Iha-Based Pidgin at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ Al-Gariri, Husam Saeed Salem Al-Gariri (2022). Prenasalized Stops in Iha: an acoustic analysis of allophonic variation. University of Amsterdam.
- 1 2 Flassy, Don A.L. and Lisidius Animung. 1992. Struktur Bahasa Iha. Jakarta: Pusat Bahasa dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional.
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