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those morphemes in the Quechua spoken in the area, for
example /kinsa/ ‘three', /rura.fia/ ‘to make’, (Morocomarca) ,
and /-nti/ ‘with, by', but such shared items are of minor
significance, given the fact that similar shapes of those
morphemes and several others are pan-Andean (Hardman,
personal communication). Only one instance of a possible
occurrence in Aymara of a Quechua suffix was noted, in
Calacala (see 7-2.22.11 and footnote 2). The present
evidence is that the Aymara spoken by Aymara-Quechua
bilinguals in areas where Quechua has the greater prestige,
remains remarkably free of Quechua admixture, perhaps

because of the diglossia mentioned in 1-1.1.

10-2.3 Intermediate dialects: Calacoa, Sitajara

As indicated above, Calacoa shares the following
features with the northern group: 10-2.11.14, 10-2.11.21,
10-2.11.22, 10-2.12.11, and 10-2.12.12. It shares the
following with the southern group: 10-2.21.31 (the verb
pugu.fia, not the others) and 10-2.22.17.

Sitajara shares the following with Calacoa and the
northern group: 10-2.11.22. With the southern group it
shares the features 10-2.21.11, 10-2.21.31 (puqu.fia),
10-2.22.12, and 10-2.22.13.

Calacoa and Sitajara share the following feature
concerning the incidence of a morpheme:

10-2.31 Nonoccurrence of temporal root g"ara (in free