Podolia Governorate - Language

Language

The Imperial census of 1897 produced the following statistics. Bold type marks languages spoken by more people than the state language. In 1897 3,018,299 people lived in the governorate of Podolia.

Language Number percentage (%) males females
Ukrainian 2 442 819 80.93
Yiddish 369 306 12.24
Russian 98 984 3.28
Polish 69 156 2.29
Romanian 26 764 0.89
German 4 069 0.13
Tatar 2 296 0.08
Bashkir 1 113 0.04
Other 3 706 0.12
Persons
who did not identify
their native language
73 <0.01

The cities had 221,870 inhabitants, comprising about 7.35% of the total population. About 46.06% of the urban population consisted of Jews, 32.54% of Ukrainians, 15.03% of Russians, and 4.90% of Poles.

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