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/-mpi/ occurs in La Paz, /-nti/ in Salinas
The suffix -jama has the allomorphs

/-~jama/, /-:ma/, /-ja/

What may sometimes appear to be inconsistency with re-
spect to this notation will be due to the fact that a
morph that at the individual dialect level is a base
form (morpheme) may be considered an allomorph of a mor-
pheme at the supradialectal level and/or in another
dialect. In such cases context will dictate whether the
morph is to be treated as an allomorph or as a morpheme.
If there is only one invariant allomorph for all dialects,
it will always be underlined unless given in phonetic
transcription. If there is one allomorph that occurs
almost everywhere (even if some dialects have others),
it will be considered the base form of the morpheme in
question and underlined, e.g. the final suffix -xa
which has the allomorph /-:/ (vowel length) in some
areas. If a morpheme has several allomorphs, they may
all be referred to at once in alphabetical order and
underlined, e.g. the suffix -mpi_ ~ -nti, the suffix
~taki ~ -tak"i ~ -tay.

Examples are glossed in one of two ways: (1)
If the example is short or for added clarity (for
example when a morpheme occurs without its final vowel )

individual morphemes are glossed to the right: