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- ↑ Cuyonon at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ Palawan Tourism Council. Accessed August 28, 2008.
- ↑ DeVries; Roe, Virginia H.; G. Richard (1967). Semivowels in the Coyono Alphabet. Manila Bureau of Printing. pp. 268–273.
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