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mag'a.lJ1a [ma(q)'alla] 'food' (Salinas)
4-3.21.2 /fi/ --> [ij]

In Morocomarca a palatalized velar allophone of
/fi/, articulated with the blade of the tongue moving
forward from velum to palate, may optionally occur in the
lp possessive suffix allomorph /-fia/ when it directly
follows a postvelar, velar, or palatal consonant (except
the glide /y/, perhaps because of its fronted onset)
as the result of morphophonemic vowel dropping. (See
5-3.24 for a discussion of personal possessive suffix
morphophonemics.) The allophone [i] also occurs after
the alveolars /t/ and /r/. No examples after /s/ or /1/

were obtained. Examples:

kullak.fia [kutakfja] ‘my sister’

kullaka.nak.fia [kutakanakfja] ‘my sisters'

After bilabials, [fi] always occurs.

Warm.fia.wa. [warmriawa] ‘She's my wife.'

The articulation of a palatalized velar allophone of
/ti/ suggests a phonetic relic of the velar nasal phoneme

/nh/ which does not exist as such in the Aymara of