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The Spanish language first arrived in Peru in 1532. During colonial and early republican times, the Spanish spoken colloquially on the coast and in the cities of the highland possessed strong local features, but as a result of dialect leveling in favor of the standard language, the language of urban Peruvians today is more or less uniform in pronunciation throughout most of the country. [5]
Spanish is followed by the country's Indigenous languages, especially all types of Quechua (13.9% combined) and Aymara (1.7%), [2] [3] who also have co-official status according to Article 48 of the Constitution of Peru, [4] as well as the languages of the Amazon and the Peruvian Sign Language.
Peruvian Spanish is the main language of 82.6% majorly spoken in the Coastal cities, It is the primary language of the country used for the public media, television, radio, newspapers, and the internet in general with very minimal exceptions.
Dialects of Spanish spoken in Argentina. 5 varieties of Spanish spoken in Peru. Spanish dialects in Colombia. Spanish dialects spoken in Venezuela. Some of the regional varieties of the Spanish language are quite divergent from one another, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary, and less so in grammar.
Dialectal map of Peru and Ecuador.The coastal dialect is highlighted in yellow. Peruvian coastal Spanish (Spanish: Español costeño peruano), also known as Ribereño Spanish (Spanish: Español ribereño) or Spanish from Lima (Spanish: Español limeño), is the form of the Spanish language spoken in the coastal region of Peru.
According to the Peruvian Constitution of 1993, Peru's official languages are Spanish and, in areas where they predominate, Quechua and other Indigenous languages. Spanish is spoken natively by 82.6% of the population, and coexists with several native languages, of which the most important is the Quechuan languages , spoken by 16.92% of the ...
The Spanish also tolerated its use until the Peruvian struggle for independence in the 1780s. As a result, various Quechua languages are still widely spoken today, being co-official in many regions and the most spoken language in Peru, after Spanish.
The Academia Peruana de la Lengua (Peruvian Academy of Language) is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Peru. It was founded in Lima on May 5, 1887. Its first elected president was Francisco García Calderón. The second president was Ricardo Palma. It is a member of the Association of Spanish Language ...