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- ↑ "Base de Datos de Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios". Base de Datos de Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios. Archived from the original on 2017-02-20.
- ↑ David, Fleck (2013). Panoan Languages and Linguistics (PDF).
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