Re: THEORY: Aymara

"Alex C." wrote:
> How are aymaras able to elude the language change through the  ages? I
> mean, I gues this change would eventually produce irregularities, am I
> right?
The suffixes are probably recent.  I imagine that an earlier stage of
Aymara was isolating, and, perhaps from local influences, they evolved
into affixes.

> An opinion of my own: Perhaps the Guzman-de-Rojas view is too
> paternalistic to the Aymaras. The Aymara is a common language. It has
> nothing "magic" nor "extraterrestrial". It's just quite regular and
> simple. That's all.
My thoughts exactly.  No law says that languages HAVE to be irregular,
after all.  :-)

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