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- ↑ Mensching, G. Einführing in die Sardische Sprache Romanisticher Verlag (1994) ISBN 3-86143-015-0
- ↑ Polyphonies de Sardaigne, by Bernard Lortat-Jacob, Musée de l'Homme (1981/1992), Le Chant du Monde LDX 274 760
- ↑ Max Leopold Wagner, Dizionario Etimologico Sardo Carl Winter Verlag (1960)
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