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- ↑ Birchall, Joshua (2013). "A look at the Rokorona language". STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 66 (3). doi:10.1524/stuf.2013.0013. ISSN 2196-7148.
- ↑ de Créqui-Montfort, Georges and Paul Rivet. 1913. Linguistique Bolivienne: La Famille Linguistique Čapakura. Journal de la Société des Américanistes X: 119-172.
