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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.
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]
In the 17th century, the Dolgans lived in the basins of the Olenyok River and Lena River.They moved to their current location, Taymyr, in the 18th century. [4] The Dolgan identity began to emerge during the 19th and early 20th centuries, under the influence of three groups who migrated to the Krasnoyarsk area from the Lena River and Olenyok River region: Evenks, Yakuts, Enets, and so-called ...
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The epics were originally strictly oral, and oral performance continues today in the Sakha Republic. [5] Poets, called Olonkohohut or Olonkohosut [6] (Yakut: олоҥхоһут, romanized: oloñxohut), perform Olonkhos through a mixture of spoken verse descriptions and sung character dialogue, with the olonkhohut indicating different characters and themes through tone and melody. [2]
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.
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