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A Yakutian bull. Yakutian cattle are relatively small in size. The cows stand between 110 and 112 cm (43 and 44 in) high at the withers and reach a live weight of 350 to 400 kg (770 to 880 lb); bulls reach a height of 115 to 127 cm (45 to 50 in) and weigh 500 to 600 kg (1,100 to 1,300 lb).
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
The Yakuts engage in animal husbandry, traditionally having focused on rearing horses, mainly the Yakutian horse, reindeer and the Sakha Ynagha ('Yakutian cow'), a hardy kind of cattle known as Yakutian cattle which is well adapted to the harsh local weather.
The term cattle was borrowed from Anglo-Norman catel (replacing native Old English terms like kine, now considered archaic, poetic, or dialectal), [1] itself from Medieval Latin capitale 'principal sum of money, capital', itself derived in turn from Latin caput 'head'.
In Siberia, annual temperatures fluctuate between +38 and −70 °C (100 and −94 °F) and winter may last for 8 months. [7] Yakutian horses are kept unstabled year-round, and in the roughly 800 years that they have been present in Siberia, they have evolved a range of remarkable morphologic, metabolic and physiologic adaptations to this harsh environment.
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
The company owns dozens of TV channels in Yakutia, Russia, and other countries. The main broadcasting languages are Yakut, English, Russian and Evenk. It was founded in 1992 after the collapse of the USSR. 70% of the shares are owned by the Russian VGTRK, 25% are owned by Yakutia, and 5% are in free float.
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]