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- 1 2 Bangka Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ "Indonesiatraveling.com". Archived from the original on 2011-02-22. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Miyake, Sarman & Fithrorozi 2022, p. 4.
- 1 2 3 Miyake, Sarman & Fithrorozi 2022, p. 3.
- ↑ Miyake, Sarman & Fithrorozi 2022, pp. 4–5.
- ↑ Miyake, Sarman & Fithrorozi 2022, p. 5.
Bibliography
- Miyake, Yoshimi; Sarman, Hendry; Fithrorozi (31 March 2022). "A preliminary study of Belitung Malay". NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia. 72: 17. Retrieved 2 January 2024– via TUFS Prometheus Academic Collections.
