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noun roots containing the velar nasal phoneme.

Jaqaru Aymara (Jopoquer?)
inhatza ‘agricultural *inhatsa [ingatsa]
worker'
kanhara ‘dried maguey *kanhara [kangara ]
cord'

That is, the speaker did not pronounce the velar nasal
intervocalically in the two (to him) nonsense words given
above but rather inserted a voiced velar [g] after the
velar nasal, as did other speakers bilingual in Spanish
(as he was) who had no velar nasal phoneme in their dia-
lects. Below are shown Jaqaru-Aymara cognates in which
the Jaqaru has /nh/ while the Aymara (also of Jopoqueri)
has /ng"/, /n/, /y/, or /yn/. (Jaqaru words, like those

above, are from Hardman, personal communication. )

Jaqaru Aymara
manha 'down' mang"a ‘down, inside!
anhnatza ‘down' aynacha ‘down'
anhshishpta ‘to quarrel’ ayni.si.fa ‘to quarrel'
yanha ‘comrade, to help’ yanap.ta.fa "to help'

3-2.42 Phoneme sequences

Germinate (reduplicated) vowels may occur as

vowel length, but sequences of different vowels