Peru Languages

Description
Official languages of Peru are
 * Spanish - or Peruvian Spanish. Spoken natively by 82.6% of the population. Used by the government, media, education systems, and commerce.
 * Quechuan - spoken by 13.9% of the population. Spoken by Amerindians.
 * Aymara - spoken by 1.7% of the population.

There are four Peruvian dialects
 * Andean Spanish
 * Peruvian Coastal Spanish
 * Andean-Coastal Spanish
 * Amazonic Spanish

Alphabet and Pronunciation
Alphabet

Pronunciation

Language Aids and Dictionaries
Dictionaries

Online Dictionaries

Language Aids

Language Aids
To learn phrases useful for writing genealogical query letters to Peru see the Spanish Letter Writing Guide on the Internet.

The FamilySearch Library provides the following genealogical word lists on the Wiki:


 * Spanish Genealogical Word List
 * German Genealogical Word List
 * Latin Genealogical Word List
 * Polish Genealogical Word List
 * Portuguese Genealogical Word List
 * French Genealogical Word List

The following books and English-Spanish dictionaries can also aid you in your research. You can find these and similar material at many research libraries:

Blanco Garcia, Vicente. Diccionario ilustrado latinoespanol y espanol-latino (Illustrated Dictionary Latin-Spanish and Spanish-Latin). Madrid: Aguilar, 1968. (FS Library book 473.61 B598d.)

Cassell’s Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary. New York: Macmillian Publishing Company, 1978. (FS Library book 463.21 C272c.)

Ramos Wold, Lillian, and Ophelia Marquez. Compilation of Colonial Spanish Terms and Document Related Phrases. Fullerton, Calif.: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, 1996. (FS Library book 467.97203 W83c.)

Additional language aids, including dictionaries of various dialects and time periods, are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog in the “Locality” section under:


 * PERU - LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES

Some dictionaries can also be found in the “Subject” section under:


 * SPANISH LANGUAGE - DICTIONARIES


 * SPANISH LANGUAGE - DICTIONARIES ENGLISH

Idiomas de Perú