Samogitians

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Samogitians (Žemaitē)
Total population

about 0,5 mln in Lithuania
Regions with significant populations
Lithuania
Language(s)
Samogitian language, Lithuanian language
Religion(s)
Catholics
Related ethnic groups
Latvians, 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.

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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 ethnicity in passport.[2]

Samogitians call themselves Žemaitē, though exonyms are used in different languages.

Language Samogitia Samogitians
Samogitian Žemaitėjė žemaitē
Belarusian Жмудзь жмудзь
German Schameiten Schameiten
Latvian Žemaitijā žemaiši
Polish Żmudź żmudź
Russian Жмудь жмудь

  1. ^ Petrulis, Valdas (2005). "Žemaitijos etninės savimonės regiono erdvinė struktūra". Geografijos metraštis 38: 163-175. ISSN 0132–3156. 
  2. ^ lrytas.lt (2007-06-04). Žemaičio tautybė - vos porai dienų (Lithuanian). Retrieved on 2007-11-23.

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