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- ↑ Ethnologue gives a figure of 7,030. However, this is a guestimate based on 35,000 speakers divided among five recognized languages.
- ↑ Natanzi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Endangered Languages Project data for Natanzi.
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