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often fail to keep them apart or use cumbersome means to
do so, as in the case of the velar fricative written j and
the postvelar fricative written jj. When these cluster,
as frequently happens, unwieldy and ambiguous sequences
like jjj or jjjj can result whose disambiguation requires
the use of hyphens, as in the following example from
Herrero et al. (1971: 1969): paj-jjeta ‘pay me'. In the
Yapita phonemic alphabet this word would be unambiguously

rendered as pajxita.

9-3 Morphophonemics

Missionary, Patrén, and Radio Aymara observe
regular vowel-dropping and -retaining rules as do other
dialects, except that stylistically-conditioned final
vowel dropping occurs less often in Missionary and Patron
Aymara than in other dialects. Stem-final vowel restora-
tion with stress thereby occurring on the antepenultimate
vowel (see 4-3.33) occurs frequently on verbs, usually
with the Imperative 2+3 suffix, in radio advertisements
or announcements urging listeners to buy something or be

present at an event, as in the following examples:

al.t'a.si.pini.ma 'be sure to buy'
buy 2>3
I

yati.ya.si.p.ka.rak.tama ‘they are notifying you'
notify 32
S