29 million (2018)[1] 2,060,000 as L2 in Peru (2018)
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latino-Faliscan
Romance
Italo-Western
Western Romance
Ibero-Romance
West Iberian
Castilian
Spanish
Peruvian Spanish
Early forms
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Italic
Old Latin
Vulgar Latin
Proto-Romance
Old Spanish
Early Modern Spanish
Writing system
Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in
Peru
Regulated by
Peruvian Academy of Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1
es
ISO 639-2
spa[2]
ISO 639-3
–
Glottolog
None
IETF
es-PE
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Dialect map of Peru (in Spanish)
Peruvian Spanish (castellano peruano) is a family of dialects of the Spanish language that have been spoken in Peru since brought over by Spanish conquistadors in 1532. There are five varieties spoken in the country, by about 94.4% of the population.[citation needed] The five Peruvian dialects are Andean Spanish, Peruvian Coastal Spanish, Andean-Coastal Spanish, Equatorial Spanish, and Amazonic Spanish.
^Spanish → Peru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^"ISO 639-2 Language Code search". Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
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