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The percentage of Yakuts in the districts of Yakutia, in the 2010 census. Currently, Yakuts form a large plurality of the total population within the vast Republic of Sakha. According to the 2010 Russian census, there were a total of 466,492 Yakuts residing in the Sakha Republic during that year, or 49.9% of the total population of the Republic.
A study found that the North Asian ethnic groups—Altai Kazakh, Khanty, Komi , Mongols, Buryats, Dukha, and Yakuts—are, on average, with the exception of the Komi, more closely related to East Asians than to Europeans, but still occupy a distinct position from the major East Asian populations (typified by Koreans, Japanese, and Han Chinese ...
Yakutsk (/ j ə ˈ k uː t s k / yə-KOOTSK) [a] is the capital and largest city of Sakha, Russia, located about 450 km (280 mi) south of the Arctic Circle.Fueled by the mining industry, Yakutsk has become one of Russia's most rapidly growing regional cities, with a population of 355,443 at the 2021 census.
The Yakuts have fully preserved their native language, which differs significantly from other Turkic languages by the presence of a layer of unique Paleo-Asiatic vocabulary. The Yakut language has a developed literary tradition with many styles and genres, and the ancient Sakha epic Olonkho is recognized by UNESCO as a masterpiece of the oral ...
A review paper by Melinda A. Yang (in 2022) summarized and concluded that a distinctive "Basal-East Asian population" referred to as 'East- and Southeast Asian lineage' (ESEA); which is ancestral to modern East Asians, Southeast Asians, Polynesians, and Siberians, originated in Mainland Southeast Asia at ~50,000 BC, and expanded through multiple migration waves southwards and northwards ...
The Yakut language (/ j ə ˈ k uː t / yə-KOOT), [2] also known as Yakutian or Sakha language (also sometimes саха romanized as 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 republic in the Russian Federation.
Prior to their resettlement, the Yakuts were somewhat influenced by the then-dominant Mongolian culture. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Yakuts originally lived around Olkhon and the region of Lake Baikal . Beginning in the 13th century they migrated to the basins of the Middle Lena , the Aldan and Vilyuy rivers under the pressure of the rising Mongols .
Yakuts, the Turkic peoples indigenous to the Sakha Republic; Yakut language, a Turkic language; Yakut scripts, Scripts used to write the Yakut language; Yakut (name) Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; Yakutian Laika, a dog breed from the Sakha Republic; Yakutian cattle, a breed from the Sakha Republic; Yakutian horse, a breed from the ...