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References
- 1 2 S23 Ladji Ladji at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development: v. 1 (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ladji Ladji". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Indigenous Heritage Murray Darling Association (2015).
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