Editing Masurians (section)

====Population size====
Mother tongue of the inhabitants of [[Masuria]], by county, during the first half of the 19th century:
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|+Ethno-linguistic structure of Masurian counties in the first half of the 19th century, according to German data<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gsj1FBg0gvUC&pg=RA1-PA78|title=Die ländliche verfassung in den einzelnen provinzen der Preussischen Monarchie|last=von Haxthausen|first=August|publisher=Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung|year=1839|location=Königsberg|pages=78–81|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jasiński|first=Grzegorz|date=2009|title=Statystyki językowe powiatów mazurskich z pierwszej połowy XIX wieku (do 1862 roku)|url=http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media//files/Komunikaty_Mazursko_Warminskie/Komunikaty_Mazursko_Warminskie-r2009-t1/Komunikaty_Mazursko_Warminskie-r2009-t1-s97-130/Komunikaty_Mazursko_Warminskie-r2009-t1-s97-130.pdf|journal=Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie|language=pl|volume=1|pages=97–130|via=BazHum}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Belzyt|first=Leszek|date=1996|title=Zur Frage des nationalen Bewußtseins der Masuren im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (auf der Basis statistischer Angaben)|url=https://www.zfo-online.de/index.php/zfo/article/viewFile/134/134|journal=Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung|language=de|volume=Bd. 45, Nr. 1|pages=35–71|via=zfo-online|access-date=2019-10-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003002444/https://www.zfo-online.de/index.php/zfo/article/viewFile/134/134|archive-date=2019-10-03|url-status=dead}}</ref>
!County (German name)
!Year
!Polish-speakers
!'''%'''
!German-speakers
!'''%'''
!Lithuanian-speakers
!'''%'''
!Total population
|-
![[Gołdap]] (Goldap)
|1831
|5845
|'''19%'''
|21463
|'''69%'''
|3614
|'''12%'''
|30922
|-
![[Olecko]] (Oletzko)
|1832
|23302
|'''84%'''
|4328
|'''16%'''
|22
|'''0%'''
|27652
|-
![[Ełk]] (Lyck)
|1832
|29246
|'''90%'''
|3413
|'''10%'''
|4
|'''0%'''
|32663
|-
![[Węgorzewo]] (Angerburg)
|1825
|12535
|'''52%'''
|11756
|'''48%'''
|66
|'''0%'''
|24357
|-
![[Giżycko]] (Lötzen)
|1832
|20434
|'''89%'''
|2528
|'''11%'''
|25
|'''0%'''
|22987
|-
![[Pisz]] (Johannisburg)
|1825
|28552
|'''93%'''
|2146
|'''7%'''
|0
|'''0%'''
|30698
|-
![[Mrągowo]] (Sensburg)
|1831
|28753
|'''90%'''
|3209
|'''10%'''
|0
|'''0%'''
|31962
|-
![[Szczytno]] (Ortelsburg)
|1825
|34928
|'''92%'''
|3100
|'''8%'''
|0
|'''0%'''
|38028
|-
![[Nidzica]] (Neidenburg)
|1825
|27467
|'''93%'''
|2149
|'''7%'''
|1
|'''0%'''
|29617
|-
![[Ostróda]] (Osterode)
|1828
|23577
|'''72%'''
|9268
|'''28%'''
|0
|'''0%'''
|32845
|-
!Total
!1825/32
!234,639
!78%
!63,360
!21%
!3,732
!1%
!301,731
|}