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Aymara as uta.:k"a (5-3.12.5). In Jopoqueri it is trans-
Tated uta.ra.n (5-3.12.10).

Present-day allomorphs of -jama beginning with
/j/ or /k"/ require a preceding consonant; those beginning
with vowel length of course require a preceding vowel.
Bertonio's inconsistent spelling precludes certainty
about the morphophonemics of the allomorphs in his day.
The morphophonemics of -nama are variable, sometimes
requiring a preceding vowel, sometimes a preceding con-
sonant. The various allomorphs keep their final vowels
except before /-jama/ itself (which may occur after -nama
and may reduplicate on itself) and when zero complement

final vowel dropping occurs.
5-3.33 Zero complement vowel drop

In Aymara each verb root or stem has many poten-
tial zero complements. These are noun roots, stems, or
themes whose occurrence with a given verb root or stem
depends on semantic constraints inherent in the verb root
and in the verbal derivational suffixes which may occur
in the verb. As these suffixes change, the zero comple-
ments change also. They are called zero complements
because they are marked by obligatory loss of the final
stem vowel before final sentence suffixes, if any,
except -lla ~ -~ya. The loss of vowel may occur on an

independent suffix, if any occurs on the noun root, stem,