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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.
According to ethnographer Dávid Somfai, the Russian yakut derives from the Buryat yaqud, which is the plural form of the Buryat name for the Yakuts, yaqa. [8] The Yakuts call themselves Sakha, or Urangai Sakha (Yakut: Уран Саха, Uran Sakha) in some old chronicles. [9]
At the end of the XVII century records of Yakut words were made, and in the 19th century. A number of Cyrillic alphabets emerged. So, in the second edition of the book by Nicolaes Witsen’s “Noord en Oost Tartarye” (Northern and Eastern Tataria), with a translation of the prayer “Our Father” into the Yakut language and some of the Yakut vocabulary, written in an approximate ...
All languages of the branch combined have approximately 670,000 native and second language speakers, with most widely spoken members being Yakut (c. 450,000 speakers), Tuvan (c. 130,000 speakers), Northern Altai (c. 57,000 speakers) and Khakas (c. 29,000 speakers).
Yakut or Yakutian may refer to: 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
Films in which the Yakut language is wholly or partially spoken. Pages in category "Yakut-language films" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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