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References
- ↑ Menchum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Befang". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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