linguistic:paraphrasing
Vowels

Quechua only has three vowel phonemes: / a / / i / and / u /, with no diphthongs, as in Aymara (including Jaqaru). Monolingual speakers pronounce them as respectively, but Spanish realizations may also be found. When the vowels appear adjacent to uvular consonants (/q/, /qʼ/, and /qʰ/), they are rendered more like, respectively.