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349:, Ukrainian was the native language for 51,039 people (0.54% of the country's population, 3rd place after Belarusian and Russian). Ukrainians among those who indicated Ukrainian as their native language were 46,403 (29.2% of the total Ukrainian population of the republic), and representatives of other nationalities — 4,636. Those speaking it at home made up 6,279.
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445:, 1,400,576 or 47.59% of Ukrainians in the Russian Federation indicated that they can speak languages other than Russian, of whom 1,267,207 indicated that they could speak Ukrainian. The total number of people who reported being able to speak Ukrainian was 1,815,210 (5th place after Russian, English, Tatar, and German).
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381:, the number of people who indicated Ukrainian as their mother tongue decreased to 107,252 (3.82% of the country's population, 5th place after Moldovan, Romanian, Russian, and Gagauz), and the number of people who frequently speak Ukrainian decreased to 73,802 (2.63% of the country's population).
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