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As Aymara is an inflected language, its nouns must be declined for a utterance in this language to be considered grammatical.

Syntactic relations in Aymara are generally case-marked, with the exception of the unmarked subject. Case is affixed to the last element of a noun phrase, usually corresponding to the head. Aymara has 14 cases.

ablative -ta
accusative (indicated by vowel suppression)
allative -ru
benefactive -taki
comparative -jama
genitive -na
instrumental/comitative -mpi
interactive -pura
locative -na
limitative -kama
nominative (zero)
perlative -kata
purposive -layku

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-Syntactic relations in [[Aymara language| Aymara]] are generally case-marked, with the exception of the unmarked subject.  Case is affixed to the last element of a NP, usually corresponding to the head.  Aymara has 14 cases.
+As Aymara is an inflected language, its nouns must be declined for a utterance in this language to be considered grammatical.
+Syntactic relations in [[Aymara language| Aymara]] are generally case-marked, with the exception of the unmarked subject.  Case is affixed to the last element of a [[noun phrase]], usually corresponding to the head.  Aymara has 14 cases.
 * [[ablative]] -''ta''