Aymara

Language

Aymara

Family

Aymaran

Ethnologue

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Nouns table

gloss	layer	nom	acc	gen	loc	abl	all	ins	ben	comp	interactive	limitative	purposive
house	lexeme	uta	ut	utana	utana	utata	utaru	utampi	utataki	uthama	utapura	utakama	utalajku
house	suffix	zero	zero	na	na	ta	ru	mpi	taki	chama	pura	kama	lajku
house	stem-final	CV	C	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV

gloss	layer	1 simple final	1 simple non-final	2 simple final	2 simple non-final	3 simple	1incl simple	1 fut	2 fut	3 fut	1incl fut	1 rec_pst	2 rec_pst	3 rec_pst	1incl rec_pst	1 rem_pst	2 rem_pst	3 rem_pst	1incl rem_pst	1 prs counterfact	2 prs counterfact	3 prs counterfact	1incl prs counterfact
go	lexeme	sarta	sart-	sarta	sarta-	sari	sartana	saraː	saraːta	sarani	sarañani	saraja:ta	saraja:ta	sara:na	saraja:tan	sarata:ta	sarata:ta	saratajna	sarata:tan	sarirista	sarasna	sarasma	saraspa
go	suffix	ta	t	ta	ta	i	tana	zero	ta	ni	ñani	ja:ta	ja:ta	na	ja:tan	ta:ta	ta:ta	tajna	ta:tan	irista	sna	sma	spa
go	stem-final	C	C	C	C	CV	C	CVː	CVː	CV	CV	CV	CV	CVː	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV	CV

Verbs optionally mark plurality (of subject or object) through suffixation of number+aspect marker; the person markers and stem-final vowel alternations remain the same. (Note that 1st person inclusive may also take the plural marker.)
Although the 1st and 2nd person simple tense suffixes are identical (-ta), they are morphophonologically distinct: when followed by another suffix, the vowel of the 1st person suffix is deleted. Thus with the declarative suffix -wa: sar-t-wa 'I go' vs. sar-ta-wa 'you go'.
The forms illustrated here also serve for transitive verbs with 3rd person objects. 1st and 2nd person objects are expressed through portmanteau suffixes which are distinct for each person and tense/mood combination.

Although genitive and locative have identical suffixes, they were presumably historically distinct, as in some varieties of Aymara they are associated with distinct morphophonological operations.
There is also a perlative case suffix, not shown here as it is semantically incompatible with the exemplary noun.

Coler, Matthew. 2015. Aymara. In Matthew Baerman(ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Inflection. Oxford: OUP.