🇵🇪 What Language Do They Speak in Peru?
The short answer
Peru's main language is Spanish, spoken by over 80% of the population. Quechua — the language of the Inca Empire — and Aymara are co-official and still spoken by millions in the Andes.
Worth knowing
- ●Quechua has around 4 million speakers in Peru alone and gave Spanish words like 'condor' and 'puma'
- ●Andean Spanish borrows rhythm and vocabulary from Quechua
- ●In the Amazon region, dozens of indigenous languages are still in daily use
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