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- 1 2 Mogholi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ Dupree, Louis (1997). Afghanistan (2nd ed.). Oxford Pakistan Paperbacks. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-19-577634-8.
- ↑ Sanders, Alan J. K. (2017). Historical Dictionary of Mongolia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 530. ISBN 978-1-5381-0227-5.
- ↑ Emadi, Hafizullah (2005). Culture and Customs of Afghanistan. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-313-33089-6.
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