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jani.w ‘no’ jani ‘not' -wa final suffix

(2) If the example is long, it will be glossed
beneath and followed by a free translation of the whole
example:

Kuna.r un.ta.t sar.naqg.ta.xa,
anything look at go 2>3

around S

jagi.tak p'inga, anu.tak unra.
people shame dog honor

 

"How stupid you are, you are a shame to the
human race, an honor to dogs.' (La Paz/Compi)

(Yapita 1975:3)

As shown here, examples from Yapita are identified as
being from La Paz/Compi; similarly, material obtained
from Vasquez is identified as being from La Paz/Tiahuanaco.
Thus is noted the fact that both have lived many years
in the city of La Paz although their dialects are
basically those of their communities of origin.

Noun suffixes and verbal derivational suffixes
are identified in either (or both) of two ways: (1)
by a term describing the function of the suffix, e. g.
-mpi agentive/instrumental, or (2) by a gloss, e. g.
cmpi ‘with, by'. Function terms are not placed with-

in single quotes, while glosses are. The function term