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References
- ↑ Mpiemo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM)[Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald, Christina Thornell, Malin Petzell, and Torbjörn Westerlund. "Bootstrapping language description: The case of Mpiemo (Bantu A, Central African Republic)." In Sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, 28–30 May 2008, Marrakech. 2008.downloadable
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