Should mobile webpages have hreflang links to non-mobile pages?

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Published on 2013-12-31T10:25:43Z Indexed on 2014/06/06 9:42 UTC
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My site has multilingual links, which are specified like this on non-mobile pages:

 <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://mydomain.com/page" />
 <link rel="alternate" hreflang="jp" href="http://ja.mydomain.com/page" />
 <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ko" href="http://ko.mydomain.com/page" />

In addition, these non-mobile pages link to a mobile version:

    <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="/mobile/page" />

Now the question is about what links should be in the mobile page, which isn't translated to different languages now.

Is this enough:

  <link rel="canonical" href="/page"/>

Or should I also have the same group of hreflangs that point to non-mobile pages?

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