Notes

‘Vowel length often corresponds to glide plus
vowel. See note 2 below.

2 Vowel Tength corresponds to glide plus vowel in
a number of cases (see 3-4.3). A lengthened vowel may
act phonetically like vowel plus glide making it impos-
sible to tell whether length or glide is occurring when
the homorganic glide follows /i/ or /u/. For example,
/-pi: / and /-pu:/ occur as variants of the final suffix

: + -pu ~ -pu: reiterator of known information

. /-pi:/ and /-pu:/ retain vowel height before
the postvelar fricative /x/, as would be the case with
/piy/ and /puw/ but not with /pi/ and /pu/. Examples of
/-pi:/ and /-pu:/ before /x/ (the sentence suffix -xa)
are the following (see also note 10):

 
 

Intinti.pi:.xa. ‘She understands!?' (Sitajara)

Sa.ta.pu:.xa. ‘It's called.' (repeating name
of place)
(Corque)

34 source from San Andrés de Machaca told me that
near Zepita and Desaguadero (both in the province of
Chucuito, department of Puno) there is another place
called Carangas where /nh/ also occurs. Whether it is
in fact the phoneme or merely an allophone of another
nasal needs to be determined.

+ contrary to L. Martin-Barber (Hardman et al.
1975:3.76), /m/ may occur before stops other than the
/p/ series, e. g. amta.si.na ‘to remember’.

2some Spanish loans with /i/ ~ /u/ correspondences,
that occur in all dialects, entered Aymara at different
times before and after the Spanish sibilant shift. According
to Alonso (1967), that shift took place between 1550 and
1630 and involved a change of /8/ (spelled x) to /x/
(spelled j). ~