6-5.21 Dialects near Lake Titicaca (northern group)
La Paz, Juli, Socca, Huancané:

6-5.21.1 Retention of /si/ or /ji/ on sa.fia

6-5.21.2 Initial velar or postvelar fricatives in 13 F

6-5.21.3  Preponderance of /sa/ forms in D-1 and D-2,
and of /iri/ forms with /k(s)/ or /s(k)/ in
those tenses

6-5.21.4 Negative usually accompanied by /-ka-/ incom-
pletive or /-xa-/ completive on verb

The following subgroups in the northern group
may be identified on the basis of the features indicated.

Juli, Socca, Huancané:

6-5.21.5 /-wa-/ allomorph of distancer (verbal deriva-
tional suffix)

6-5.21.6 -chi NI plus 3+3 S in stories

Juli, Socca:

6-5.21.7 -iri plus 3+3 RIK in stories

6-5.21.8 RIK forms based on /-tay-/ rather than /-ta:-/
La Paz, Huancané:

6-5.21.9 In general, lack of aspiration where other
dialects have it in verbal inflectional suf-
fixes