Moravians
Moravané | |
|---|---|
Moravians, painted by Vaclav Maly | |
| Total population | |
| 560,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Czech Republic | 556,641(2021) |
| Slovakia | 2,049 (2021) |
| Languages | |
| Czech (Moravian dialects), Silesian, Slovak | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism (majority) also Irreligion Protestantism (minority) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Bohemians, Chodové, Silesians, Slovaks and other West Slavs | |
Moravians (Czech: Moravané or colloquially Moraváci, outdated Moravci) are a Czech ethnographic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of Czech or Common Czech or a mixed form of both. They are not a separate ethnicity instead, a subgroup of the ethnic Czech people, as is recognized by most Moravians but a part of the group's population 'ethnically' identifies as 'Moravian', registered in Czech censuses since 1991. The figure has fluctuated and in the 2011 census, 6.01% of the Czech population declared Moravian as their 'ethnicity'. Smaller pockets of people declaring Moravian 'ethnicity' are also native to neighboring Slovakia.