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- ↑ "Glottolog 4.8 - Ika". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
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- ↑ "Complete Bible now in Ika language". Ika Weekly Newspaper. 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
- ↑ Dr, Mefor (28 June 2022). "Igbo ancestry: Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has nothing to prove". Thecable.ng.
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