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- ↑ "Enlhet-Enenlhet. Una familia lingüística chaqueña" [Only-Only. A Chaqueña linguistic family](PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
- ↑ "Lengua Sanapaná". Promotora Española de Lingüística. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
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- ↑ van Gysel, Jens (2017). Temporal Predicative Particles in Sanapaná and the Enlhet-Enenlhet Language Family (Paraguay): A Descriptive and Comparative Study. Leiden University. pp. 27–38.
