396

The tense is thus an excellent example of nonstop consonant

instability in Aymara.

133

2>3

33
4+3

1>2

372

/-:/ (vowel length) everywhere; voiceless frica-

tives<-

in La Paz, Calacoa, Juli, Socca, Huancané;
voiced nonstops elsewhere: velar nasal,
Sitajara and Jopoqueri; palatal nasal, Salinas;
palatal glide, La Paz, Socca, and Morocomarca. <*>
/-:ta/ everywhere except Sitajara; preceded by
voiceless fricative, Calacoa (also cited by
Bertonio); preceded by velar nasal, Sitajara;
preceded by alveolar nasal, Corque and Salinas.
/-ni/ everywhere.

/-tana/ and /-:tan/, Calacoa (*/-tana/ also

cited by Bertonio); /-fiani/, /-tan/, and /-:tan/,
Salinas; /-fiani/, /-tna/, and /-:tna/, Moroco-
marca; /-nani/ elsewhere.

Peruvian dialects, /-mama/ and variants; Bolivian
dialects, /-:ma/. (Vitocota, near Ayata, pro-
vince of Mufecas, in the department of La Paz,
also has /-mama/.) The following also have
/-:ma/: Juli, Socca, and Huancané. Sitajara

has /-ma:/; La Paz has /-:man/ in addition to
/-:ma/.

/-:tam/, La Paz, Socca; /-:tam/ and /-(:)tma/,

Juli; /-(:)tma;, Calacoa and Morocomarca. Forms