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It may occur with other diminutives, as in the following,
which has -cha followed by -itu reduced to /ch.tu/ by
the three-vowel rule (see 4-3.22.16).

papa.ch.tu.ja 'my daddy' (Huancané)
5-3.22.2 --illa ~ ~ tla

/-lla/ diminutive, which occurs in Huancané, Sita-
jara, Corque, Jopoqueri, and Salinas, is to be distin-
guished from /-1la/ Ip possessive which occurs in Vito-
cota and from /-1la/ allomorph of -ya ~ -1lla politive
final (sentence) suffix, which occurs in some of the dia-
Tects that have /-lla/ diminutive. Both the diminutive
/-lla/ and the final suffix /-1lla/ may occur on the same
stem, and they are clearly distinct in meaning.

/-illa/ has occurred in the speech of one source
from Salinas who also uses /-lla/, but the latter is
more common. It may reduplicate for emphasis. A speaker
from Jopoqueri used both pisaq.ita and pisagqa.lla ‘little

partridge’ in the same story. Other examples:
Uk.jama.lia.ki.w. ‘It's just like so.’ (Salinas)
may-illa ‘just one little one' (Salinas)
Sik'a.Jla.lla.wa. ‘It's tiny.' (Salinas) sik'a 'little'

Jisk'a.lla.ki.w. ‘It's very small.'  (Huancané)

jisk'a ‘little’