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qawa pacha.ta ‘since when' (La Paz/Tiahuanaco)
*gayq''a pacha ‘how much time' (Bertonio 1603b:183)
+

qgayg"a pacha.ta ‘since when' (Bertonio 1603b)

It may also occur with personal possessive suffixes, as

in these examples from Huancané.

q'awg"a.pa.sa ‘how many of theirs’ -pa 3p

q'awq"a.ja.sa ‘how many of mine’ /-ja/ Ip
q"awg"a.ma.sa ‘how many of your people’ (sic)
-ma_ 2p

5-2.2 Demonstratives

Demonstratives are deictic pronouns expressing
four degrees of distance. They readily enter into de-
rived formations. In noun phrases they may modify human
nouns, but their use as pronouns to refer to human beings
is usually considered rude.

The root demonstratives, presented in order of
relative proximity to a fixed point (e.g. the

speaker or writer of a sentence), are

aka_~ jaka ‘this, here'

uka ‘that, there'

k"aya ~ k"a: ~ k"a ~ -k"ayu ‘that over there, over there’