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Åkerrén, Brita. (1977). “Nukuhiva in 1819: From the unpublished journal of a Swedish traveller.” Pacific Studies, 7(1), 34-58. Available at http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/PacificStudies&CISOPTR=1230&REC=13.

Cablitz, Gaby, Ringersma, Jacquelijn, & Kemps-Snijders, Marc. (2007). Visualizing endangered indigenous languages of French Polynesia with LEXUS. [Marquesan and Tuamotuan]. Available at http://www.lat-mpi.eu/papers/papers-2007/123_Cablitz_Ringersma_marquesan.pdf

Cleac’h, Mgr Hervé. (1997). Pona te‘ao tapapatina: Lexique Marquisien-Français. [alt. title, Pona tekao tapapa ‘ia: Lexique Marquisien-Français]. [Ordered Vocabulary: Marquesian-French Lexicon]. Mahina, Tahiti: Association ‘Eo Enata. [The book is titled in two Marquesian Dialects: Pona Te’ao Tapaptina [south-eastern dialect, used on the title page], Pona Tekao Tapapa ‘Ia [north-western dialect, used on the front cover].]

Dordillon, Mgr I. -R. (1904). Grammaire et dictionnaire de la langue des îles Marquises. Paris: Imprimerie Belin Frères. [1999 Reprint by the Société des Études Océaniennes]

Lavondes, H. (1966). Marquesan vocabulary of spatial orientation. A contribution to ethnoscience. Available at http://www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_5/b_fdi_20-21/28173.pdf.