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Livonians

Ливы · Q690126

language area per Glottologcensus counts
235
Ukraine, census 2001 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
405
sum of censuses in 3 countries, 2001-2021
Uralic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Ukraine: 235 people in the 2001 census.

Official figures exist for 3 countries; together they add up to 405. 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.

Main language: Liv. Glottolog classifies it in the Uralic 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.

Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Livs» · [1]
235
Latvia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Livs» · [2]
160
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Livs» · [3]
10
Sum across 3 countries405

Languages and their lineage

Liv

  1. Uralicural1272
  2. Finnicfinn1317
  3. Coastal Finniccoas1319
  4. Livlivv1244

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

HungariansEstoniansMari peopleUdmurtsKomi peopleKomi-PermyaksErzyasNenetsKareliansKhanty peopleMountain MariMansi peopleMokshasFinnsVepsiansSelkup peopleBesermyanNganasan peopleIngrian FinnsSetosIzhoriansEnetsMeadow–Eastern Mari peopleVotes

Sources

  1. 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…
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Latvia, Census - de jure - 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. 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…
  4. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)