Russian in Lithuania

Speakers

141,122

Type

Location

Russian in Lithuania

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Russian in Lithuania

Size

141,122

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No
Administrative units of the country
towns of Vilnius, Klaipėda, Kaunas, Visaginas

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
towns of Vilnius, Klaipėda, Kaunas, Visaginas

Size / Number of users

Number of users

141122
Source
Population census
Year
2021

Users within total population

5.00000
Less than 10% use the language

PROPORTION

5
Source
Population census
Year
2021

Users within the reference community

Less than 10% use the language
Actual percentage
4
Source
Percentage of Russian speaking population in Lithuania
Year
2021

Age distribution of users

12,784
9
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Age distribution of users

85,903
61
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Age distribution of users

42,435
30
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Generational use

100
100
86
All generations
Comments

Russians who consider Russian as their mother tongue

Educational attainment

No education
1
1
1,396
Early childhood education
Source

Population census

Year
2021
7
7
9,534
Primary education
Source

Population census

Year
2021
14
11
8,215
Lower secondary education
Source

Population census

Year
2021
54
52
38,916
Higher secondary education
Source

Population census

Year
2021
24
27
35,699
Tertiary education
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Occupational qualifications

39
62
7,365
Elementary occupations
Source

Population census

Year
2021
79
21
5,721
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
79
21
9,001
Craft and related trades workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
56
44
360
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
25
75
9,123
Services and sales workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
29
72
2,870
Clerical support workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
48
52
4,938
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

Population census

Year
2021
31
69
13,723
Professionals
Source

Population census

Year
2021
60
40
5,411
Managers
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Language competence

100
100
121,324
Understand well, speak/sign some
Source

Russians who consider Russian as their mother tongue

Literacy of users

100
100
(Almost) 100 % of users with literacy in the language
Actual percentage
100

Digital use

86
68
More than 50% digital users of the language
Actual percentage
86
Source

Information society development committee

Year
2021
Comments

Survey data not disaggregated by gender

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
towns of Vilnius, Klaipėda, Kaunas, Visaginas

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Decreasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion