Languages of Peru

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Peru has many languages in use, with its official languages being Spanish, Quechua and Aymara. Spanish was introduced by conquistadors in the 1500s; it began being taught in the time of José Pardo instead of the country's Native languages, especially the languages in the Andes. In the beginning of the 21st century, it was estimated that in this multilingual country, about 50 very different and popular languages are spoken: which reduces to 44 languages if dialects are considered variants of the same language. The majority of these languages are Indigenous, but the most common language is Spanish, which is spoken by about 94.4% of the population. Spanish is followed by the country's Indigenous languages, especially all types of Quechua (13.9% combined) and Aymara (1.7%), which also have co-official status according to Article 48 of the Constitution of Peru. In addition, Amazonian languages are spoken in the Amazon Basin and the Peruvian Sign Language is used by the Deaf community in Peru...

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