Database
Quechua (Cuzco)
(Central Cuzco, Peru; Quechuan)
Summary:
a. Two sonorants optionally metathesize across an intervening vowel.
b. Two adjacent stops optionally metathesize.
Summary:
a. Two sonorants optionally metathesize across an intervening vowel.
b. Two adjacent stops optionally metathesize.
Examples:
a. Sonorant metathesis
lamran ~ ranram 'alder tree'
qaraywa ~ qaraway 'lizard'
yuraq ~ ruyaq 'white'
b. Stop metathesis
rakrt"a ~ ratk"a 'thick'
a. Sonorant metathesis
lamran ~ ranram 'alder tree'
qaraywa ~ qaraway 'lizard'
yuraq ~ ruyaq 'white'
b. Stop metathesis
rakrt"a ~ ratk"a 'thick'
Conditions:
No information currently available.
No information currently available.
Motivation:
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No information currently available.
Related Information:
a. [l] and [r] alternate in word initial position.
a. [l] and [r] alternate in word initial position.
Symbols:
t" = aspirated voiceless alveolar stop
k" = aspirated voiceless velar stop
Last Updated: 6/18/2007
t" = aspirated voiceless alveolar stop
k" = aspirated voiceless velar stop
Last Updated: 6/18/2007
References:
- Davidson, Joseph Orville Jr. 1977. A Contrastive Study of the Grammatical Structures of Aymara and Cuzco Kechua. Ph. D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.
