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- ↑ Kyaka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Draper, Norm and Sheila Draper. 2002. Dictionary of Kyaka Enga, Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.