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 ==Wordlists==
 
-* [[bip-0039/english.txt|English]]
-* [[bip-0039/japanese.txt|Japanese]]
-
-===Wordlists (Special Considerations)===
-
-====Japanese====
-1. Users will most likely separate the words with UTF-8 ideographic space.
-(UTF-8 bytes: 0xE38080) When splitting for validation or joining for generation, replace
-all instances of ascii space with the ideographic space, and in case of a mixture of space
-types, also replace just before seed generation.
-
-2. Word-wrapping doesn't work well, so making sure that words only word-wrap at one of the
-ideographic spaces may be a necessary step. As a long word split in two could be mistaken easily
-for two smaller words (This would be a problem with any of the 3 character sets in Japanese)
+* [[bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md|Moved to separate document]]
 
 ==Test vectors==
 
diff --git a/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md b/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md
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+#Wordlists
+
+* [English](bip-0039/english.txt)
+* [Japanese](bip-0039/japanese.txt)
+
+##Wordlists (Special Considerations)
+
+###Japanese
+
+1. Users will most likely separate the words with UTF-8 ideographic space.  
+(UTF-8 bytes: 0xE38080) When splitting for validation or joining for generation, replace  
+all instances of ascii space with the ideographic space, and in case of a mixture of space  
+types, also replace just before seed generation.
+
+2. Word-wrapping doesn't work well, so making sure that words only word-wrap at one of the  
+ideographic spaces may be a necessary step. As a long word split in two could be mistaken easily  
+for two smaller words (This would be a problem with any of the 3 character sets in Japanese)
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