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- ↑ If "Terangi" is a nickname for "Mariterangi", the presence or not of an "n" in "Mariterangi" or "Mariteragi" is due to variations in the representation of the voiced velar nasal in paumotu, transcribed by some with the digraph "ng", convention adopted in the 19th century by the first missionaries, or transcribed by others with the simple graph "g", convention recommended today by the Académie paumotue
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- ↑ "Your Musical Holiday in the South Seas". Billboard. 14 October 1957. p. 32.
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