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4-3.12 Initial (C)V deletion

Optional deletion of initial fricative-vowel,
palatal lateral-vowel, or vowel alone occurs after
devoicing of the vowel in rapid speech. That is, the

sequence is (C)V --> (C)V --> Q.
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4-3.12.1 /jV/ --> ®@

Optional loss of initial /jV/ occurs most often
in nouns, but it has also occurred in particles and in

a verb. Examples:
Nouns:

ch" .usru® < jich"a uru ‘today’ (Salinas)

jich"a ‘now uru ‘day'
ch'a.mma.1a” < jach'a mama.Ja ‘grandmother’

(Jopoqueri) jach'a 'big' mama.la 'mother'

< jisk'a anu ‘little dog' (La Paz/Compi)
jisk'a

"little' anu ‘dog'

 

ma: k'a.ta.x <ma: juk'a.ta.x ‘a little’ (Sitajara)
ma: ‘a'  juk'a ‘Tittle’
-ta_ ‘from, of'

pa.x < jupa.x 3p pronoun (Huancané)