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- 1 2 Jaminjung at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ N18 Jaminjung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ Endangered Languages Project data for Ngaliwurru.
- ↑ Schultze-Berndt 2000 , pp. 13–14
- ↑ Janet E. Bolt; William G. Hoddinott; Frances Kofod (1971), An elementary grammar of the Ngaliwuru language of the Northern Territory, Wikidata Q131317614
- ↑ Judy Merchant Jones; Dolly Bardbarriya; Eileen Raymond; et al. (2011). "Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali plants and animals: Aboriginal flora and fauna knowledge from the Bradshaw and Judbarra/Gregory National Park area, north Australia". Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin. 38. Diwurruwurru-Jaru Aboriginal Corporation. ISBN 978-1-921519-49-9. Wikidata Q131319408.
- 1 2 3 Schultze-Berndt 2000 , p. 41
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- Schultze-Berndt, Eva F. (2000). Simple and Complex Verbs in Jaminjung - A Study of event categorisation in an Australian language (Thesis). Radboud University. hdl:2066/147040. ISBN 90-76203-09-1.
- Jones, Judy Marchant; Bardbarriya, Dolly; Raymond, Eileen; Roberts, Doris; McDonald, Duncan; McDonald, Dinah; McDonald, Margaret; Simard, Candide; Moerkerken, Colleen; Wightman, Glenn (2011). Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali Plants and Animals: Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from the Bradshaw and Judbarra/Gregory National Park area, north Australia. Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin. Vol. 38. Palmerston, N. T.: Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport. ISBN 9781921519499.
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