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Old 23rd February 2020, 08:18 AM   #9
A. G. Maisey
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David, with the exception of Tumbok Lada, I would suggest that all the other names are exactly the same name, but written down by people from various different societies who recorded the name in their own interpretation of the sound they heard. The different spellings simply bear evidence of the variation in phonetics of the various languages involved.

I have a few of these things myself, they are usually very carefully made, nice quality little knives.
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