 Subsequently, in absolute numbers, 75,533 ethnic Germans (or 9% of population) were registered in Bukovina when it was still part of the Kingdom of Romania (as per the Romanian population census of 1930).Historically, some of them developed their own dialect over the course of several hundred years which they called 'Buchenländisch'.To this day, sparse rural and urban communities still reside in southern Bukovina (i.e.