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====Butuan seal==== {{main|Butuan Ivory Seal}} [[File:Butuan Ivory Seal.jpg|right|thumb|The Butuan ivory seal housed in the [[National Museum of the Philippines]].]] The Kawi lettering reads "Butban". The three square seal style characters are BA, TA and NA; the leftward curl underneath BA is the /u/ vowel diacritic, changing the syllable to BU; the small heart-shaped character under TA is the subscript conjunct form of BA which also removes the default /a/ vowel from TA; the large curl to the upper right is the Kawi [[virama]], which indicates the default /a/ vowel on NA is not pronounced. The three blocks of characters together read "[Bu][Tba][N-]. In both [[Balinese script]] and [[Javanese language|Javanese script]], which are descended from Kawi, the word is spelled in a very similar pattern, using a similar /u/ diacritic, conjunct form for B, and virama.
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