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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 ...
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.
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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]
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]
In the same year, the Yakut language was introduced in schools of Yakut ASSR. In 1923, the new Yakut font was made in Petrograd. Another primer, suruk bicik and a book for reading a:ʃar kinige [1] were published. This primer was much better than the others and consisted of five parts: fiction, history, geography, medicine and folklore.
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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