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References
- ↑ Ndengereko at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Rufiji (duplicate code) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ndengereko". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Harald Hammarström (2013) Review of the Ethnologue, 16th Ed.
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