Yekaterinoslav Governorate - Language

  • By the Imperial census of 1897. In bold are languages with more speakers than the state language.
Language Number percentage (%) males females
Ukrainian 1 456 369 68.90
Russian 364 974 17.27
Yiddish 99 152 4.69
German 80 979 3.83
Greek 48 740 2.31
Tatar 17 253 0.82
Belorussian 14 052 0.66
Polish 12 365 0.59
Romanian 9 175 0.43
Turkish 5 555 0.26
Roma 1 293 0.06
Other 3626 0.17
Persons,
that did not identified
their native language
56 <0.01

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