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Juma.x kuna.layku.s parla.s.ista?
2p what for speak 2+]
S

'Why did you talk to me?' (naya.ru ‘to me' implied)

The combination /-xa.t/ ‘about' usually occurs in La Paz;
elsewhere /-ta/ or /-t"a/ alone may be used with that

meaning, e. g- (in Jopoqueri),

Juma.t" parla.si.p.xa.flani. ‘Let's talk about you.'
2p talk 4+3
F

This suffix often occurs on interrogatives and

numbers, sometimes in reduplicative phrases.

gawg"a.t.s gawg'a.t.s ‘how many by how many' (La Paz)

may.ni.t may.ni.ta ‘one by one' (La Paz)

kuna.t"a ‘why' (Juli, Morocomarca) kuna ‘what'

kuna.ta.raki ‘why’ (Huancané)

This suffix sometimes occurs where the English
translation would have 'in' or 'by', as in aymar aru.t"a
‘in Aymara’ and awtu.t ‘by car'. In Morocomarca it occurs
sometimes with the special meaning ‘instead of', which
elsewhere is expressed by the root noun lanti. The

following all gloss 'I came instead of him':