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- ↑ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- ↑ Post, Mark W. (2013). Defoliating the Tani Stammbaum: An exercise in areal linguistics . Retrieved 2 February 2020– via academia.edu. Paper presented at the 13th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Canberra, Australian National University, 9 August 2013.
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