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References
- ↑ Mor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Kamholz, David (2014). Austronesians in Papua: Diversification and Change in South Halmahera–West New Guinea (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of California, Berkeley.
