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To Yapita this is incorrect, the verb jik.xata.si.fia
requiring a living, moving subject. A correct way to ex-

press the meaning, he suggests, would be

Kuriyu.x kalli Ayakuchu.n.k.i.wa.

'The Post Office is on Ayachucho Street.' (La Paz/Compi)

Examples of correct sentences with jiki.fia or derived

forms would be

P"isi.x achak jik.xata.tayna.w. ‘The cat found a mouse.'
cat mouse find 373 (La Paz/Compi )
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Jiki.si.fi.kama. ‘Until we meet again.’ (La Paz/Compi)

9-6.13 Directly/Indirectly-acquired knowledge

A third linguistic postulate which is weakened in
Missionary Aymara (though not in Patrén or Radio Aymara)
is the distinction of direct and indirect knowledge source.
Usually Missionary Aymara uses tenses and final suffixes
that imply direct personal knowledge, apparently as a
reflection of the Christian emphasis on acceptance by faith.
According to Yapita and Vasquez, use of such forms is
appropriate for eye-witness accounts, but their use in
stories or sermons telling of events the speaker could not

possibly have experienced personally is perceived as inappro-

priate and ludicrous.