 263,523 people or 9.4% have Russian as native language, 107,252 or 3.8% – Ukrainian, 114,532 or 4.1% – Gagauz, 41,756 or 1.5% – Bulgarian, 12,187 or 0.5% – another language.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".