| Chinese Peruvian | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 秘魯華僑華人 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 秘鲁华侨华人 | ||||||||||
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| Tusán | |||||||||||
| Chinese | 土生 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Local-born | ||||||||||
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Chinese Peruvians, also known as tusán (a loanword from Chinese 土生 pinyin: tǔ shēng, jyutping: tou2 saang1 "local born"), are people of Overseas Chinese ancestry born in Peru, or who have made Peru their adopted homeland.
Most Chinese Peruvians are multilingual. In addition to Spanish or Quechua, many of them speak one or more Chinese dialects that may include Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin, and Minnan. Since the first Chinese immigrants came from Macau, some of them also speak Portuguese. In Peru, Asian Peruvians are estimated at least 5% of the population. one source places the number of citizens with some Chinese ancestry at 5 million, which equates to 20% of the country's total population.
Read more about Chinese Peruvian: Prominent Chinese Peruvians
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