Languages
- Bulgarian 84.5% (official)
Turkish 9.6%, Romani 4.2%, others and unspecified 1.5% (2001 census)
The 2001 census defines an ethnic group as a "community of people, related to each other by origin and language, and close to each other by mode of life and culture"; and one's mother tongue as "the language a person speaks best and usually uses for communication in the family (household)".
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