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bilinguals literate in Aymara and Spanish, who consciously
promote the development of Aymara literature, deliberately
Aymarize Spanish loans, both in speech and in writing,
as for example Istarusunirusa (from Estados Unidos ‘United
States') and winus tiyas (from buenos dias ‘good morning').¢
In the following sections the three dialects will
be discussed with respect to phonology, morphophonemics,
morphology, morphosyntax and syntax, and semantics. It
should be kept in mind in reading this chapter that it is
primarily an analysis of Missionary, Patr6én, and Radio
Aymara as spoken in the city of La Paz and (for Missionary
Aymara only) in Compi, department of La Paz; and of
published sources of Missionary and Patrén Aymara (see 2-4.11),
most of which probably also reflect La Paz usages. For
Radio Aymara, only recorded (spoken) texts were used;
for Missionary, both recorded and published written texts;
and for Patrén, published written texts only. The analysis
is based on interpretations and revisions of the texts
and on additional examples provided by Vasquez (La Paz/
Tiahuanaco) and Yapita (La Paz/Compi). Vasquez furnished
most of the initial interpretations and revisions of
published texts (for example, Ebbing 1965, Paredes Candia
1963, Wexler 1967, and the Aymara catalogues). Yapita
reviewed some of these as well as the recorded texts. The
chapter is thus a contrastive study of the three trans-

lation dialects and the two La Paz dialects, from the