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Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ↑ Cobbey, Maxwell; Cobbey, Vurnell (1977). Suraq vungã sanãp Radlai / Nữ-vựng Rơglai / Northern Roglai vocabulary. Huntington Beach, CA: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ↑ Lee, Ernest Wilson (1966). Structure of Northern Roglai as a representative Chamic language. In Proto-Chamic Phonologic Word and Vocabulary: Bloomington: Indiana University. pp. 21–69.
- ↑ Brunelle, Marc; Brown, Jeanne; Thu Hà, Phạm Thị (2022). Northern Raglai voicing and its relation to Southern Raglai register: evidence for early stages of registrogenesis. In Phonetica 79, Vol 2. pp. 151–188.
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