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preceding consonant, when the suffixes occur on the mono-
syllabic sa.fia root.

In view of the existence in Aymara of morphopho-
nemic rules for deleting initial CV and the absence of
prefixing as a productive grammatical process in the
language, it might be better to analyze sa.fia as having

the underlying root wrisa- which obligatorily loses its

 

initial CV when suffixed with -jfia (perhaps to avoid
homophony with jis sa.fia 'to say yes') but may keep it

or lose it otherwise, depending on dialectal and stylis-
tic considerations. (For a full discussion of the morpho-

phonemics of this verb, see 6-4.) .
4-3.2 Medial position

The following rules occur either medially ina

word or across juncture in a noun phrase.

4-3.21 Allophonic variation

4-3.21.1 /q'/ --> [']

Reduction of a glottalized postvelar stop to
glottal stop alone occurs sporadically in the noun/verb
root mag'a ‘food/to eat' in Salinas, Calacala, and Moro-

comarca, as in the following examples:

mag'a.nta.:nt [ma(q)'anda:nt] ‘you will eat’ (Calacala)