Country
Languages of Peru
The Linguasphere Register records 8 entries for Peru, spread across 3 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.
8Register entries
3Sectors present
7Zones
1Language entries
5= INDO-EUROPEAN 7= SINO-INDIAN 8= SOUTH-AMERICA
Register entries recorded in Peru
| Code | Entry | Level | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
51-AAA-bb | español-F | Inner | español académico, lingua castellana, "formal castillian spanish", "literary castillian", "standard castillian". |
51= | ROMANIC | Zone | Covers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
79= | SINITIC | Zone | Covers the "Chinese" or Han-Yu set, part of the "Sino-Tibetan" ("Sino-Indian") continental affinity. |
82= | ARAWAKIC | Zone | Covers the "Maipuran" ("Maipurean") or "Core Arawakan" grouping, part of the "wider Arawakan" hypothesis. |
83= | QUECHUIC | Zone | |
84= | ANDES | Zone | |
87= | AMAZON | Zone | Covers the "Amazon" reference area, composed of sets not covered by any phylozone. |
88= | TUPIC | Zone | Covers the "wider Tupian" grouping. |
Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.