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- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Margaret Arminel Bryan, compiler, The Bantu Languages of Africa, Oxford University Press 1959 ,page 96.
- ↑ Valinande, Nzama K. (1984). The Structure of Kinande. Georgetown University.
