Tutejszy

[1][2] This was mostly in mixed-lingual Eastern European areas, including Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia, in particular, in Polesia and Podlachia.

For example, in 1989, a poll of persons whose passports recorded their ethnicity as Polish revealed that 4% of them regarded themselves as tuteišiai, 10% as Lithuanians, and 84% as Poles.

[3] The term was first used in an official publication in 1922 [3] in the preliminary results of the Polish census of 1921 (Miesięcznik Statystyczny, vol.

An indigenous nationality (French: Nationalité Indigène; Polish: Narodowość tutejsza) was declared by 38,943 persons, with the vast majority being Orthodox (38,135) and from rural areas (36,729).

[11] The group's speech (język tutejszy, "local language") was described by Björn Wiemer [de] as “an uncodified and largely undescribed Belarusian vernacular”.