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- ↑ Schrock, Terrill. 2017. The Ik language: Dictionary and grammar sketch, p.3. (African Language Grammars and Dictionaries, 1.) Berlin: Language Science Press.
- ↑ Beer, Samuel James. 2017. Grammatical Contraction in Nyang'i: A Descriptive and Comparative Study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder.
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