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References
- ↑ Mbembe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Odut village at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ↑ Blench (2013) An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
- ↑ "Odut". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
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