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Jaqaru but not in Aymara today.) The order just given
will be adhered to throughout this section as it is
believed to be the best for displaying structural simi-
larities and differences, but it is, of course, arbitrary.

For each tense paradigm a figure showing the
person/tense suffix allomorphs in each of nine dialect
areas will be given. Included in most paradigms are a
few contemporary forms alleged in published sources,
identified by a preceding raised + Also included are
forms alleged for late 16th-century Juli by Bertonio
(1603b); these are listed between contemporary La Paz
and Juli forms and boxed to distinguish them clearly
from contemporary forms. Other variants cited in the
paradigms occurred either in free texts or in elicited
paradigms, or in both. A blank in a paradigm means
that no form for it was obtained, but does not neces-
sarily imply that it does not exist. Each tense is
analyzed for the morphophonemics, structure, and distribu-
tion of its person/tense suffixes.

The verb chura.fia 'to give’ was used to elicit
all paradigms, as it occurs freely with all person/tense
suffixes. It should be pointed out, however, that even
when given in paradigms (an essentially artificial frame-
work), Aymara verbs usually occur with verbal deriva-
tional suffixes, and often with independent and final

suffixes, as well as inflectional ones. For the sake