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Liuneddas / Liuneḍḍas (gender unknown) (plurale tantum)

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Launeddas / Launeḍḍas / Launedda [sic]

Southern Sardinia; NB: Spelling Liuneḍḍas scientific [?].

Sources

Dore, Giovanni: Gli strumenti della musica popolare della Sardegna. Cagliari, 1976, p.37, 308 (sas Liuneddas).

Lallai, Ermenegildo: Le launeddas tra scrittori e viaggiatori. In: Launeddas: l’anima di un popolo (1997), p.31 (»Dore), 226.

Paulis, Giulio: I nomi delle launeddas: origine e storia [with an extensive article on their manufacture]. In: Sonos (1994), p.140.

Bakx, Phons: De launeddas: rietinstrument van de Sarden. Middelburg, 1995, p.19 (is Liunèddas).