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Spanish words occurring in Aymara sentences
are written as Spanish if they were so pronounced, e. g.
contento ‘happy, content'. If they were phonologically
adapted to Aymara (Aymarized) they are written as Aymara,
e. g. kuntintu. In some cases decisions whether to treat
a given word as Spanish or Aymara were arbitrary, and a

few hybrids occurred, e. g. Pedru.