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- ↑ Mpuono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Muluwa, Joseph Koni, and Koen Bostoen. "Un recueil de proverbes mbuun d'Imbongo (RD Congo, bantu B87)." In Annales aequatoria, pp. 381-423. Centre Æquatoria, 2008.
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