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- ↑ Ethnologue lists South Binja and Gengele among the dialects of Songola, but these have hundreds of thousands of speakers
- ↑ Songola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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