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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]
After the Yakuts adopted Christianity from the Russians, they began to use Russian clerical names in official concerns. The naming conventions are similar to those of Russian names . The original Sakha names were used in unofficial settings, but eventually the official clerical names dominated.
The Yakuts, also known as the Sakha people, migrated to the area during the 13th and 14th centuries from other parts of Siberia. When they arrived they mixed with other indigenous Siberians [ 15 ] The Russian settlement of Yakutsk was founded in 1632 as an ostrog (fortress) by Pyotr Beketov .
The official languages are both Russian and Sakha, also known as Yakut, which is spoken by roughly half of the republic's population. In the 2021 census, 95% of Yakuts, 72% of Evenks and 60% of Evens declared Sakha as their native language. [44] The Sakha language is a member of the Turkic language family, belonging to the Siberian branch.
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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.
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
Since the late 1780s, the process of mass Christianization of the Yakut population began. Russian clergy fought against the religion of the Yakut people, shamanic attributes were taken away and destroyed. At baptism children were given Orthodox names, due to which in a few decades traditional Yakut names practically disappeared from use.