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kuna.s isi.pa.s wali.k.i.t ni uf.nag.pa.s suma.k.i.t
nn 353
S

$a.Sa

‘none of his clothes were good, nor was his appearance

attractive, saying' isi "clothes'

~

ufi.naqa ‘appearance’

In stems frozen with 3p -pa (see above) the mor-
phophonemics of the personal possessive vary, some forms
having -pa with a preceding consonant, some with a pre-
ceding vowel. A relic of a rule of vowel loss before
possessives, with no final consonant-cluster avoidance,

is found in a term used in La Paz for the Virgin Mary.

Tayk.s Mariya.x ‘Our Mother Mary' tayka 'mother'

In Morocomarca, the /fi/ of Ip /-fla/ may be
realized as [i] (a palatalized velar nasal) in certain
environments, and in Calacala the /p/ of 3p -pa may be
realized as the voiced labial fricatives [v] or [b];
these alternations result from phonological ly-conditioned

morphophonemic rules (see 4-3.21.2 and 4-3.21.32).
5-3.25 - ynaka plural

This suffix occurs in all dialects. As indicated
in 5-2.3, number is not obligatorily marked in Aymara.

In the speech of monolinguals, plural may be marked on