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References
- ↑ Ngete at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Herdé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngete". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Herde". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
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