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to use enough politives with the Imperative and Future
tenses. That is, they tend to use forms like those at
the end of 9-3, which would be appropriate for a parent
speaking to a child, among brothers and sisters, between
spouses in certain circumstances, or between a buyer and
seller who do not know each other. Between adult friends,
compadres, a seller and buyer who know each other, and
among family members, forms with politives are the norm,
e.g. sara.ma.y ‘please go' with -ya final suffix.
According to Yapita and Vasquez, the drills pro-
vided by Herrero et al. (1971-2) sound like orders, some
less brusque than others, but orders nevertheless, because
they lack politive suffixes. Yapita and Vasquez indicate
that use of such forms by persons in authority, such as
a Catholic priest or a Protestant minister, is perceived
by many Aymara speakers as evidence of a more or less
arrogant assumption of superiority. Compared to Missionary
and Patrén Aymara, Radio Aymara uses more of the verbal
derivational and independent suffixes, although not of
-ya politive,° and is therefore perceived as more courteous.
The passive in Spanish is often translated in
Missionary Aymara by the verbal derivational suffix com-
bination -ya.si-, consisting of -ya- causative followed
by -si- reciprocal/reflexive, as in the following example
from a Baptist sermon:
Jesucristo Tat.itu.ru iyaw sa.m uka.t.wa

Lord yes say 2>3 then
I