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Are Mongolian "хан" and "хаан" the same word despite the usually important difference in vowel length?
I've just noticed that if you look in several English and Mongolian dictionaries that the Cyrillic Mongolian word "khan" is given as either "хан" with a short vowel, or "хаан" with a long vowel.
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