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- ↑ "Warwar Feni". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- ↑ "Fanamaket". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- ↑ Capell, A. (2010). "A Lost Tribe in New Ireland". Mankind. 6 (10): 499–509. doi:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1967.tb01355.x.
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