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- ↑ Ibo Ugu (Imbo Ungu) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ubu Ugu (Umbu Ungu) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ "Imbongu Ethnologue Entry". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. SIL International. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
- ↑ "The Bible in Imbongu language". worldbibles.org. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
- ↑ Franklin, Karl J.; Stefaniw, Roman (1992). "The 'Pandanus Languages' of the Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea - a further report" (PDF). In Dutton, Tom (ed.). Culture change, language change - case studies from Melanesia. Pacific Linguistics. C-120. Canberra: Department of Linguistics Research School of Pacific Studies THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. pp. 1–6. doi:10.15144/PL-C120.1. ISBN 978-0858834118. ISSN 0078-7558. OCLC 260177442 . Retrieved 25 October 2018.
