Chernigov 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
Ukrainian 1,526,072 66.41 747,721 778,351
Russian 495,963 21.58 236,842 259,121
Belarusian 151,465 6.59 73,691 77,774
Yiddish 113,787 4.95 54,724 59,063
German 5,306 0.23 2,664 2,642
Polish 3,302 0.14 1,775 1,527
Persons
that didn't name
their native language		 74 >0.01 32 42
Other 1,885 >0.01 1,247 638
Total 2,297,854 100 1,118,696 1,179,158

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