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- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Marau Wawa". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Sidney Ray (1926), A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages, CUP, pp. 471–472.
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