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Riang Lai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ↑ Hall, Elizabeth. (2018) A phonological analysis of Riang Lang. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (JSEALS), 11:2.
- Shintani Tadahiko. 2014. The Riang language. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 101. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).