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- ↑ North Marquesan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
South Marquesan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ↑ See Charpentier & François (2015).
- 1 2 For regular sound correspondences between Marquesan dialects and other Polynesian languages, see Charpentier & François (2015), p.93.
- ↑ Marquesan Pronunciation Guide
- ↑ Margaret Mutu & Ben Teìkitutoua (2002), p. 38
- 1 2 Margaret Mutu & Ben Teìkitutoua (2002), p. 40
- 1 2 Mutu & Teìkitutoua (2002). Ùa Pou: Aspects of a Marquesan dialect. p. 72.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Cablitz 2006.
- ↑ Krupa, Viktor (2005). "Syntax of Verbal Nouns in Marquesan". Oceanic Linguistics. 44 (2): 505–516. doi:10.1353/ol.2005.0038. JSTOR 3623350. S2CID 145204950.
- 1 2 Margaret Mutu & Ben Teìkitutoua (2002), p. 88
- ↑ Mutu & Teìkitutoua (2002). Ùa Pou: Aspects of a Marquesan dialect. p. 94.
- ↑ The authors of the Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia judged the variety spoken on Tahuata to be too similar to Hiva Oa's to form a separate survey point.
