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About number and composition population of TERNOPIL' REGION
by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001
The language structure of Ternopil’ region, according to the data of the All-Ukrainian population census ‘2001 , is characterized by the following data:
| |
The part of those whose mother tongue was( %) |
| the language of their nationality |
Ukrainian |
Russian |
other language |
|
Ukrainians
|
99.9 |
х |
0.1 |
0.0 |
|
Russians
|
80.3 |
19.6 |
х |
0.1 |
|
Belarussians
|
40.0 |
40.0 |
20.0 |
0.0 |
|
Poles
|
8.6 |
90.2 |
1.1 |
0.1 |
|
other
|
15.3 |
35.6 |
9.5 |
39.6 |
The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 98.3% of the population of region, this is by 1 % more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 1.2% of the population. Comparatively with the data of previous census this index has decreased by 1.3%. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue, during the period that have passed since previous census did not change and accounts for 0.5%.
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