The language structure of Ukraine, according to the data of the All-Ukrainian census of the population, is characterized by the following data:

	The part of those whose mother tongue was( %)( %)
	the language of their nationality	Ukrainian	Russian	other language
Ukrainians	99.6	х	0.4	-
Russians	87.8	12.1	Х	0.1
Hungarians	62.8	29.2	7.5	0.5
Azerbaijanians	56.0	29.0	14.8	0.2
Poles	56.0	41.0	2.8	0.2
Romanians	55.4	37.2	3.4	4.0
Moldavians	50.8	31.5	16.7	1.0
Lithuanians	47.9	31.9	20.2	-
Georgians	46.8	25.8	27.2	0.2
Gypsies	44.7	43.7	2.1	9.5
Armenians	44.5	22.7	32.6	0.2
Uzbek	38.1	34.8	26.3	0.8
Chuvashs	32.4	20.1	47.5	-
Belarussians	30.9	30.0	38.8	0.3
Latvian	29.9	41.4	28.2	0.5
Mordvanians	29.1	19.4	48.5	3.0
Tatars	28.1	21.2	50.0	0.7
Bulgarians	23.3	32.7	43.1	0.9
Germans	16.5	48.9	33.6	1.0
Czechs	13.1	73.8	11.9	1.2
Greeks	8.9	36.3	54.8	-
Korelians	8.3	14.3	77.4	-
Jews	6.0	31.1	62.2	0.7
other	19.6	21.3	21.4	37.7

   The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 95.3% of the population of L'viv region(in Ukraine -67.5%), this is by 5.2 percentage points more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 3.8% of the population(in Ukraine - 29.6%). Comparatively with the data of previous census this index has decreased by 5 percentage points. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue, during the period that have passed since previous census has decreased by 0.2 percentage points and accounts for 0.9%.