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Demography

2001 Census
Istria County Population by Declared Mother Tongue

Mother tongue	Total	Percentage
Total	206,344	100.00
Croatian	179,945	87.21
Italian	15,867	7.69
Slovenian	1,894	0.92
Albanian	1,877	0.91
Serbian	1,808	0.88
Bosniac	1,244	0.60
Romany	575	0.28
Serbian-Croatian	506	0.25
Hungarian	430	0.21
Macedonian	387	0.19
German	249	0.12
Slovak	155	0.08
Czech	102	0.05
Romanian	94	0.05
Croatian-Serbian	86	0.04
Turkish	64	0.03
Russian	56	0.03
Montenegrin	47	0.02
Polish	40	0.02
Ukrainian	29	0.01
Bulgarian	25	0.01
Ruthenian	17	0.01
"Vlaški" [note]	1	0.00
Unknown	655	0.32
Other	191	0.09

Note:

As anyone who has family members in the Istro-Romanian community knows, there is considerably more than one native speaker of "Vlaški" (Istro-Romanian) in Istria. Perhaps the Romanian language category is for the same speakers, and perhaps there are speakers who are currently in the "Unknown" and "Other" categories.

Another spoken language of Istria that is not duly represented in the 2001 census are the Istriot language speakers who may have been counted as "Italian".

Source:

Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Census 2001 - http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/Census/census2001.htm

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