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Chuvans

Чуванцы · Q1945649

language area per Glottologcensus counts
900
Russia, census 2021
1,326
sum of censuses in 5 countries, 2001-2021
Yukaghir
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Russia: 900 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 5 countries; together they add up to 1,326. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2001-2021) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 900 people identified with the nationality "Чуванцы" (Chuvans)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Main language: Chuvantsy. Glottolog classifies it in the Yukaghir family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Чуванцы» · [1]
900
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Chuvans» · [2]
226
Moldova, Republic of2014 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Chuvans» · [3]
152
Tajikistan2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Chuvans» · [4]
47
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Chuvans» · [5]
1
Sum across 5 countries1,326

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex

Men 439 · 48.8%Women 461 · 51.2%

Urban and rural

Urban 349 · 38.8%Rural 551 · 61.2%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
742
Magadan Oblast
33
Samara Oblast
25
Kamchatka Krai
25
Ulyanovsk Oblast
9
Republic of Tatarstan
8
Moscow Oblast
4
Moscow (city)
4
Republic of Bashkortostan
4
Perm Krai
4

Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1

Languages and their lineage

Chuvantsy

  1. Yukaghiryuka1259
  2. Kolymickoly1247
  3. Chuvantsychuv1256

Chukchi

  1. Chukotko-Kamchatkanchuk1271
  2. Chukotianchuk1272
  3. R-Koryakicrkor1234
  4. Chukchichuk1273

Russian

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Balto-Slavicbalt1263
  4. Slavicslav1255
  5. East Slaviceast1426
  6. Russianruss1263

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Yukaghir people

Sources

  1. Rosstat. National composition of the population of the Russian Federation. Results of the 2020 All-Russian Population Census (reference date 1 October 2021), vol. 5, table 1. Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx (archived copy)
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Ukraine, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  3. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Republic of Moldova, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  4. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Tajikistan, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  5. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Kazakhstan, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  6. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)