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I've removed mongolia. Despite its historical ties to russia, there are very few slavic speakers there today. In particular, the united states, hungary, and austria all have larger populations and ratios of slavic speakers. We could introduce a new color to denote this relationship, but including it as it was was misleading. For reference, here are a number of "border" states, their number and percentage of slavic speakers according to ethnologue, and russian speakers in the united states for reference (I suspect total slavic speakers in the USA is closer to 1% but I have not added them all together as I have the other states as it would be a lot of work).
ethnologue: slavic total percent united states(a): 706,000 / 299,846,000 >> 0.235454199822576 (russian only) hungary(b): 4,890+3,390+2,580+1,300+1,110 / 10,198,315 = 0.130119534452505 mongolia(c): 4,000 / 2,581,000 = 0.154978690430066 romania(d): 57,600+29,900+16,100+3,340 / 21,628,000 = 0.493220182639978 austria(e): 39,000+11,000+3,340 / 8,292,000 = 0.643270622286541 armenia(f): 14,800+8,000 / 3,018,000 = 0.755467196819085 israel(g): 750,000+100,000 / 21,628,000 = 3.93009062326614 tajikistan(f): 237,000+41,000 / 7,011,556 = 3.96488311581623 azerbaijan(h): 475,000+32,000+5,210+1260 / 8,352,000 = 6.14786877394636 uzbekistan(i): 1,660,000+153,000+29,000 / 26,593,000 = 6.92663482871432 turkmenistan(i): 349,000+37,100+5,290 / 4,863,169 = 8.04804439245274 lithuania(j): 344,000+258,000+45,000+63,000 / 3,425,000 = 20.7299270072993 kyrgyzstan(i): 1,410,000+109,000+7,680 / 5,204,000 = 29.336664104535 moldova(k): 600,000+562,000+20,000 / 3,877,000 = 30.4874903275729 estonia(h): 407,000+12,300+8,840+600 / 1,341,664 = 31.9558399122284 latvia(l): 862,000+105,000+78,000+57,000 / 2,302,000 = 47.871416159861 kazakhstan(h): 6,230,000+898,000+183,000+61,400 / 15,211,000 = 48.4675563736769 * russian only unless marked otherwise (a) only russian is included, despite other significant populations. only for reference (b) ukrainian + serbian + polish + bulgarian + rusyn (c) russian (d) ukrainian + russian + slovak + czech (e) polish + czech + slovak (f) russian + ukrainian (g) russian + polish (h) russian + ukrainian + belarusan + polish (i) russian + ukrainian + belarusan (j) russian + polish + belarusan + ukrainian (k) ukrainian + russian + belarusan (l) russian + belarusan + ukrainian + polish
Brianski (talk) 19:56, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
The Sorbian regions of eastern Germany should be added. Pbrower2a (talk) 02:00, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
