Language planning with Spanish colonization. When the Spanish first arrived in Peru, Quechua served as a language of wider communication, a lingua franca, between Spaniards and Peruvian natives. As the years passed, Spaniards asserted the superiority of the Spanish language; as a result, Spanish gained prestige, taking over as a language of wider communication and the dominant language of Peru. In 1975, under the leadership of President Juan Velasco Alvarado, the revolutionary government of Peru declared Quechua an official language of the Peruvian state, "coequal with Spanish." Four years later, the law was reversed. Peru's 1979 constitution declares Spanish the only official
Juan Carlos Alvarado the production of "Aviva el Fuego", Hosanna Integrity and Canzion Productions worked together with Alvarado to produce "Glorificate" and "Tu Palabra" consecutively in 1993. In 1995, Alvarado released "Hoy mas que ayer". More recent releases include "FUEGO en vivo" and "Tu palabra cantaré". Juan Carlos Alvarado Juan Carlos Alvarado (born December 28, 1964) is a Christian pop singer known for songs such as "Jehova es mi guerrero" "Cristo no está muerto", "El borde de su manto", "No Basta", "Vivo para Cristo","Soy deudor", "Mi mejor adoración ", and "Santo es el Señor". As a child, Alvarado had a passion for singing