See bʼakʼtun on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2009, Brian D'Amato, In the Courts of the Sun:",
"text": "“And if you started walking to the sun now, although you couldn't, but let's say you were flying as fast as you can walk, you wouldn't get there for nine hundred times four hundred b'ak'tunob.”",
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