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- ↑ "The Siddi community of India, and Pakistan". African American Registry. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
- 1 2 Abdulaziz Yusuf Lodhi (2008), "Linguistic evidence of Bantu origins of the Sidis of India", TADIA, the African diaspora in Asia: explorations on a less known fact, pp. 301–314, Wikidata Q125346812
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- ↑ "Gujarat speaks in 50 languages, 30 dialects disappeared from state since 1961". The Times of India. 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
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