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Vol. 13:1 (1996) ► pp.179–186

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Alexander Vovin. A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu. Alexander Vovin. [Brill’s Japanese Studies, 4]. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993. xiii, 219 pp.

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