Not to be confused with Yokuts language, Saka language, or Yakutia.
Yakut
Sakha
Саха тыла,saxa tıla
Pronunciation
[saχatɯla]
Native to
Russia
Region
Yakutia, Magadan Oblast, Amur Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Evenkiysky District)
Ethnicity
Yakuts
Native speakers
c. 480,000[1]
Language family
Turkic
Common Turkic
Siberian Turkic
Northern Siberian
Yakut
Writing system
Cyrillic (formerly Latin and Cyrillic-based)
Official status
Official language in
Russia
Yakutia
Language codes
ISO 639-2
sah
ISO 639-3
sah
Glottolog
yaku1245
ELP
Yakut
Sakha language
Dolgan language
Yakut is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Yakut/jəˈkuːt/yə-KOOT,[2] also known as Yakutian, Sakha, Saqa or Saxa (Yakut: саха тыла), is a Turkic language belonging to Siberian Turkic branch and spoken by around 450,000 native speakers, primarily the ethnic Yakuts and one of the official languages of Sakha (Yakutia), a federal republic in the Russian Federation.
The Yakut language differs from all other Turkic languages in the presence of a layer of vocabulary of unclear origin (possibly Paleo-Siberian). There is also a large number of words of Mongolian origin related to ancient borrowings, as well as numerous recent borrowings from Russian. Like other Turkic languages and their ancestor Proto-Turkic, Yakut is an agglutinative language and features vowel harmony.
Yakut /jəˈkuːt/ yə-KOOT, also known as Yakutian, Sakha, Saqa or Saxa (Yakut: саха тыла), is a Turkic language belonging to Siberian Turkic branch and...
They speak Yakut, which belongs to the Siberian branch of the Turkic languages. According to Alexey Kulakovsky [ru], the Russian word yakut was taken from...
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the Yakutlanguage and some of the Yakut vocabulary, written in an approximate transcription in Latin, was published in 1705. The first real Yakut alphabet...
Yakut shamanism is a folk religion traditionally practiced by the Yakuts. Accounts of the supernatural have been preserved in the olonkho, a musical folklore...
the language continues to fade. Dolgan, along with its close relative Sakha (Yakut), belongs to the North Siberian subbranch of the Turkic language family...
The Yakutian (Yakut: Саха ата, Sakha ata) or Yakut is a native horse breed from the Siberian Sakha Republic (or Yakutia) region. It is large compared to...
byhagha; Russian: якутский нож), sometimes called the Yakut knife, is a traditional knife of Yakuts (an ethnic group from the Sakha Republic (or Yakutia)...
development of the Yakutlanguage) as the Evenk and Yukaghir exonyms for the Yakuts. It is pronounced as Haka by the Dolgans, whose language is a close relative...
Dolgano-Nenetsky District. Dolgan speak the Dolgan language, which is closely related to the Yakutlanguage. In the 17th century, the Dolgans lived in the...
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian: Якутская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, romanized: Yakutskaya Avtonomnaya...
Anastasia Savvichna Syromyatnikova (Yakut: Анастасия Саввична Сыромятникова) (June 24, 1915 - August 16, 1997) was a Yakut writer. Born in Tomponsky District...
Tygyn Darkhan (Yakut: Тыгын Дархан; Russian: Тынин; ?–1632) was a legendary Yakut hero and the subject of many tales, a chief of the Kangalas ulus (clan)...
discrimination of the Yakut people on national and linguistic grounds). The formation of the Yakut people (Sakha) and its culture (language, religion, craftsmanship...
people were already a minority in their own homeland, like the Buryat ASSR. Language and culture flourished and ultimately institutionalized ethnicity in the...
The flag of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (Yakut: Саха Өрөспүүбүлүкэтин былааҕа Saqa Öröspüübülüketin Bılaağa; Russian: Флаг Республики Саха (Якутия))...
Sakha cuisine (Yakut: Саха аһа) encompasses the customary and traditional cooking techniques and culinary arts of Sakha. Sakha cuisine is influenced by...
or "Yellow Uighur" (direct descendant of Old Uyghur) North Siberian Yakutlanguage Central Western Lena Eastern Lena Aldan Peripheral Northwestern Northeastern...
Yakutsk (Russian: Якутск; Yakut: Дьокуускай, romanized: J̌okuuskay, pronounced [ɟokuːskaj]) is the capital city of Sakha, Russia, located about 450 km...
critic, philologist, and academic, known especially for her work in the Yakutlanguage. Born in Borogonsky Rural Okrug of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic...
The Aiyy Faith (Yakut: Айыы итэҕэлэ, romanized: Aiyy Iteghele) is a neo-Tengrist Yakut religious organization that has been registered since 2015 in Yakutsk...
February 13, 1892 – 28 February 1924) was a Yakut politician and linguist, the creator of a Yakut written language. Semyon Andreyevich Novgorodov was born...
Anzhu Islands or Anjou Islands (Russian: Oстрова Анжу, tr. Ostrova Anzhu; Yakut: Анжу арыыларa, romanized: Anju arıılara) are an archipelago and geographical...
Socialist Republics, in the languages of the Soviet Republics (presented in the constitutional order) and other languages of the USSR, were as follows...