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- 1 2 Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.
- 1 2 Ethnologue: Languages of the World. "Ambelau: A language of Indonesia (Maluku)".
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