Russian Empire Census
By native tongue
The most spoken languages, from which nationality was determined were:

Russian Empire Census

Section Title: By native tongue
Table Section Text: The most spoken languages, from which nationality was determined were:

Rank	Language	Speakers

1	Russian (as “Great Russian”)	55,667,469

2	Ukrainian (as “Little Russian”)	22,380,551

3	Turkic-Tatar	13,373,867

4	Polish	7,931,307

5	Belarusian	5,885,547

6	Yiddish	5,063,156

7	Finnic languages	3,502,147

8	German	1,790,489

9	Latvian	1,435,937

10	Kartvelian languages (Georgian, Mingrelian, Svan)	1,352,535

11	Aukštaitian (as "Lithuanian", excluding Samogitian)	1,210,510

12	Armenian	1,173,096

13	Moldavian and Romanian	1,121,669

14	Dagestani languages	1,091,782

Bulgarian	172,659

Samogitian	448,022

Greek (mainly eastern Pontic Greek), spoken especially by Greeks in southern Russia and Georgia, and by Caucasus Greeks of Russian Caucasus province of Kars Oblast	186,925

Ossetian	171,716

Tajik	350,397

125,640,021

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The total population of the Russian Empire was 125,640,021 people.

final_sentence: The total population of the Russian Empire was 125,640,021 people.