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- ↑ https://aeon.co/essays/the-indigenous-faith-that-reveres-its-own-alphabet-as-sacred
- ↑ Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27). "N4017: Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.
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