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some circumstances keep and in others lose its own final
vowel. If no subscript v or c follows a suffix, either
other factors determine the retention or loss of the
final vowel or the rule has not yet been determined.
Grammatical persons are indicated by the numbers
1, 2, 3, and 4, usually followed by a p, e.g. -ja Ip
possessive suffix, -ma 2p possessive suffix. Verbal
inflectional suffixes have the subject person on the
left and the complement person on the right of a right-
pointing arrow, e.g. 1+2 means Ip subject, 2p complement.
Verb tenses are sometimes abbreviated as S
(Simple), F (Future), I (Imperative), RDK (Remote
Direct Knowledge), RIK (Remote Indirect Knowledge),
D-1 (Desiderative), D-2 (Remonstrator), IF (Inferential),
and NI (Non-Involver).
Aymara examples are underlined when treated as
base forms or words (that is, as morphemes or combina-

tions thereof):

juma.mpi ‘with you' juma 2p pronoun
-mpi os 'with'

the suffix -jama and variants
Jupa.x wali suma jagi.wa. ‘He/she is a good
person.'
Aymara examples are placed between slant lines when

treated as allomorphs: