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Persons educated or influenced by missionaries use more
interrogatives as relatives than do other Aymara speakers.
In missionary usage uka is often left out. Examples are

given in 9-5.
7-4.3 uka Tinker and summarizer

The demonstratives uka 'that' and (to a lesser
extent) aka 'this' are used as sentence linkers and
summarizers throughout the Aymara-speaking world. uka
is by far the most frequent linker and summarizer in

V2 A folk tale about a lake

all types of discourse.
bird (wallata) and a fox, told in Socca, contains a

total of 36 instances of uka and derived forms built

on it and two instances of ak"ama 'like this'. A folk
tale told in Huancané about a fox-turned-man who marries
a rich girl contains 56 instances of uka and derived
forms. While a controlled statistical study has yet to
be made, it appears that the most common forms are uka.ta
‘then’ as linker and uk"ama 'like that, so, thus' as

bath Tinker and summarizer. Examples of uka as sentence

linker:

Uka.t ma: gqamaqi.xa sara.tayn jisk.t'.iri.
then a fox go 343 ask

RIK

‘Then a fox went to ask.' (Socca)