Samogitians

Also known as neroma

Samogitians are the inhabitants of Samogitia, an ethnographic region of Lithuania. Many speak the Samogitian language, which in Lithuania is mostly considered a dialect of the Lithuanian language together with the Aukštaitian dialect. The Samogitian language differs the most from the standard Lithuanian language.

Key facts

Ethnic group.group: Samogitians
Ethnic group.native_name: žemaitē
Ethnic group.native_name_lang: Samogitian
Ethnic group.image: Paysans des environs de Samogitie et des Gitans (1ère partie du XIXème siècle).jpg
Ethnic group.image_caption: Samogitians in the first half of the 19th century
Ethnic group.pop: 500,000 in Lithuania (estimated)
Ethnic group.popplace: Samogitia
Ethnic group.rels: Catholicism
Ethnic group.langs: Samogitian, Standard Lithuanian language
Ethnic group.related: Aukštaitians, Curonians

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Population: 500000
Image: Paysans des environs de Samogitie et des Gitans (1ère partie du XIXème siècle).jpg

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Whether Samogitians are considered to be a distinct ethnic group or merely a subset of Lithuanians varies. However, 2,169 people declared their ethnicity as Samogitian during the Lithuanian census of 2011, of whom 53.9% live in Telšiai County. The political recognition and cultural understanding of the Samogitian ethnicity has, however, changed drastically throughout the last few centuries as 448,022 people declared themselves Samogitians, not Lithuanians, in the 1897 Russian Empire census.