2001 Census of Population by Declared Mother Tongue

Istria County

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 [note] 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 [note] 655 0.32
Other [note] 191 0.09

Note:

As the Istro-Romanian people who are scattered around the world know, there is substantially more than one native speaker of "Vlaški" remaining in Istria. Obviously, part of the discrepancy in these statitstics is caused by the separate Romanian category for the same linguistic speakers, and perhaps also there are speakers of the same language who are included in the "Unknown" and "Other" categories.

Similarly, another spoken language of Istria that is not duly represented in the 2001 census is the Istriot language speakers who may have been counted as "Italian" or else are including the same "Unknown" and "Other" categories.

Source:

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


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