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Uka.t.rak jan sara.si.p.ka.sma.ti. (La Paz/Compi)
careful no go 2-3

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'Be careful of not going (be careful not to miss it).'

This uses the Desiderative tense which, with -raki independent
suffix, conveys the cautionary 'be careful’.

Radio Aymara has developed distinctive phrases for
indicating the time, such as the following, which also

shows influence of direct translation from Spanish:

Llatunka minutu.naka.ki.w. p"alt.xa.rak.i  Jlatunka
nine minute lack 343

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arum urasa.taki.
night hours for

 

‘And it's only nine minutes before nine p.m.'

This sentence reflects the Spanish Nueve minutos faltan para
las nueve horas de la noche, ‘Nine minutes are lacking for

nine o'clock in the evening,' except that, instead of the

more commonly used Spanish loan for nine o'clock, las nuywi

 

(las nueve), it uses the native Aymara number Ilatunka 'nine'
plus aruma 'time after dark and before dawn' followed by

the Spanish loan urasa (horas). Removing the plural suffix
-naka on minutu (superfluous on a noun preceded by a number)

and the direct Spanish translation urasa.taki (-taki