Regions with significant populations | |
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Lithuania | |
Languages | |
Samogitian language, Lithuanian language | |
Religion | |
Catholics | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Latvians, Lithuanians, Prussian Lithuanians |
Samogitians (Lithuanian: Žemaičiai, Samogitian: Žemaitē) are a Baltic ethnic group inhabiting the region of Samogitia in Lithuania. Many speak the Samogitian dialect of the Lithuanian language.
History
Samogitians live in western Lithuania. In 1857, there were 418,824 people with Samogitian ethnicity and 444,921 persons declared Samogitian as their mother tongue in 1897 in Kovno Governorate[1]. Currently Lithuania does not allow for declaration of Samogitian nationality in passport.[2]
Exonyms
Samogitians call themselves Žemaitē, though exonyms are used in different languages.
Language | Samogitia | Samogitians |
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Samogitian | Žemaitėjė | žemaitē |
Belarusian | Жмудзь | жмудзь |
German | Schameiten | Schameiten |
Latvian | Žemaitijā | žemaiši |
Polish | Żmudź | żmudź |
Russian | Жмудь | жмудь |
Notes
- ^ Petrulis, Valdas (2005). "Žemaitijos etninės savimonės regiono erdvinė struktūra" (PDF). Geografijos metraštis. 38: 163–175. ISSN 0132–3156.
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value (help) - ^ lrytas.lt (2007-06-04). "Žemaičio tautybė - vos porai dienų" (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2007-11-23.
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