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lateralization and denasalization of /fi/, Morocomarca;
final vowel restoration and antepenultimate stress on
2+3 Imperative and certain other person/tense suffixes,

La Paz and Sitajara.

4-5 Conclusion

Taken as a whole and in spite of its complexities,
morphophonemics is a rather stable area of Aymara grammar,
contributing to mutual dialect intelligibility (although
speakers from La Paz have some difficulty with dialects
having extensive stop voicing and frication). Few suf-
fixes differ in morphophonemics from one dialect to
another, although some are affected by phonologically
and syntactically conditioned rules that are dialect
specific. Some dialect groups that may be identified
by morphophonemic rules are as follows.

4-5.1 Dialects preposing (or restoring) /si/ or /ji/

to sa.fia

La Paz (preferred); Juli, Socca, Huancané (less
frequent).

4-5.2 Dialects voicing stops after homorganic nasal

or palatal lateral before a vowel

Salinas (obligatory within a morpheme, permitted
across morpheme boundaries under certain conditions;

Calacala, Corque, Huancané, Sitajara (optional).