 Only 2,723,315 declared their native language out of the 2,804,801 covered by the 2014 census.According to the 2014 census, 2,720,377 answered to the question on "language usually used for communication".2,138,964 people or 78.63% of the inhabitants of Moldova (proper) have Moldovan/Romanian as first language, of which 1,486,570 (53%) declared it Moldovan and 652,394 (23.3%) declared it Romanian.