Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
[56] [57] There is a widespread notion among other ethnic minorities in Russia based on their experience (for example, among geographically close Mongolic Buryats) that the Sakha (i.e. Yakuts) are the least russified ethnic group in Russia and that the knowledge of the native language is widespread, particularly (as is often said) due to the ...
According to the Yakut linguist S. A. Novgorodov, the main drawback of the Bötlingk alphabet was an overabundance of superscript characters, which led to difficulties in writing and typographic typing. Khitrov's alphabet was poorly adapted to the phonetics of the Yakut language and "was adapted to the Russian reader". [2]
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
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
Others consider a genetic relationship between Yokuts, Utian, Maiduan, Wintuan, and a number of Oregon languages to be definite (cf. DeLancey and Golla 1997 [6]). Regardless of higher-order disagreement, Callaghan (1997) provides strong evidence uniting Yokuts and the Utian languages as branches of a Yok-Utian language family. [7]
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]
Sakha language, or Yakut, a Turkic language; Sakha people, also Yakuts, a Turkic people; Sakha scripts, writing systems for the Sakha language; Sakha, Egypt, a town also known as Xois; Sakha, Iran, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran; Sakha Consulting Wings, a taxi service provided by women for women in Delhi, India