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Further reading

• Crystal, David (1997). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
• Cysouw, Michael; Good, Jeff (2013). "Languoid, doculect and glossonym: Formalizing the notion 'language'". Language Documentation and Conservation 7: 331–59. http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4606. 
• Swadesh, Morris (1934). "The phonemic principle". Language 10 (2): 117–29. doi:10.2307/409603. JSTOR 409603. 

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