1880 · 1910 Eight hundred people, and a Slovak villageOsemsto ľudí a slovenská dedina

The census of 1880 counted 818 inhabitants, of whom 663 gave Slovak as their language and 86 Hungarian; by 1910 there were 843 people, 583 Slovak-speaking and 240 Hungarian. Those numbers are worth pausing on. The towns of Novohrad down on the plain — Lučenec, Fiľakovo — were largely Hungarian-speaking, while the hill villages north of them, this one included, were Slovak. The rising share of Hungarian between 1880 and 1910 says at least as much about the schools and official pressure of those decades as about anyone actually changing language.Sčítanie roku 1880 tu napočítalo 818 obyvateľov, z toho 663 sa hlásilo k slovenčine a 86 k maďarčine; roku 1910 to bolo 843 ľudí, 583 slovenských a 240 maďarských. Pri týchto číslach sa oplatí zastaviť. Mestá Novohradu dolu na rovine — Lučenec, Fiľakovo — boli prevažne maďarské, kým vrchárske dediny na sever od nich vrátane tejto boli slovenské. Rastúci podiel maďarčiny medzi rokmi 1880 a 1910 hovorí prinajmenšom rovnako o vtedajších školách a úradnom tlaku ako o tom, že by niekto naozaj menil jazyk.