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- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Middle Clarence Bandjalang". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ E16.2 Waalubal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ "Bundjalung – Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative". muurrbay.org.au. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ↑ C., Sharpe, Margaret (2005). "Yugambeh-Bandjalang Dialects". Grammar and texts of the Yugambeh-Bundjalung dialect chain in Eastern Australia. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. pp. 17–32. ISBN 3895867845. OCLC 62185149.
- ↑ "Bundjalung – Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative". muurrbay.org.au. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ↑ "Walking in unity on Bundjalung Country". Insights Magazine. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ↑ Terry., Crowley (1978). The middle Clarence dialects of Bandjalang . Smythe, W. E. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. ISBN 0855750650. OCLC 6041138.
- ↑ C., Sharpe, Margaret (2005). Grammar and texts of the Yugambeh-Bundjalung dialect chain in Eastern Australia. Lincom Europa. ISBN 3895867845. OCLC 62185149.
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