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- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wuliwuli". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ E89 Wuliwuli at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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