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author = "Hellan, Lars",
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Ramukhadi, Phathutshedzo and
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[A Computational Grammar of Ga](https://aclanthology.org/2020.rail-1.7/) (Hellan, RAIL 2020)
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- Lars Hellan. 2020. A Computational Grammar of Ga. In Proceedings of the first workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages, pages 36–44, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).