Apuntes sobre Ricardo Palma y el español del Perú

Abstract

Due to linguistic colonization and language hybridization due to its permanent
contact with indigenous languages, Spanish is a language that has been changing
over time, acquiring variations in each region of America. In the case of Peru,
the imposition of a language in a territory that had many others has generated
the emergence of Peruvian idioms, incorporating many words of native origin into
the general language. The figure of Ricardo Palma, is important, not only for his
literary writing, but for his attitude of closed defense of the Andean Castilian and
the incorporation of our words to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy in
1892.