Courland Governorate - Language

  • By the Imperial census of 1897. In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
Language Number percentage (%) males females
Latvian 507 511 75.29 240 672 266 839
German 51 017 7.56 23 372 27 645
Yiddish 37 689 5.59 18 137 19 552
Russian 25 630 3.8 16 319 9 311
Polish 19 688 2.92 9 985 9 703
Lithuanian 16 531 2.45 8 833 7 698
Belarusian 12 283 1.82 6 356 5 927
Romani 1 202 0.17 581 621
Persons
that didn't name
their native language
5 >0.01 4 1
Other 2 478 0.36 1 993 485
Total 674 034 100 326 252 347 782

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