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- ↑ Hale, Kenneth L.; Hinton, Leanne (2001). The green book of language revitalization in practice. Boston: Academic Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-12-349353-6.
- 1 2 Platero, Paul R.; Fernald, Theodore B. (2000). The Athabaskan languages: perspectives on a Native American language family . Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511947-9.
- ↑ "Swarthmore Publications/Collection Page" . Retrieved 2009-05-28.
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