Yakut language
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Yakut /jəˈkuːt/ yə-KOOT,[2] also known as Yakutian, Sakha, 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 federal republic in the Russian Federation.
Yakut | |
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Sakha | |
Саха тыла, saxa tıla | |
Pronunciation | [saχa tɯla] |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Yakutia, Magadan Oblast, Amur Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Evenkiysky District) |
Ethnicity | Yakuts |
Native speakers | c. 480,000[1] |
Turkic
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Cyrillic (formerly Latin and Cyrillic-based) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Russia |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | sah |
ISO 639-3 | sah |
Glottolog | yaku1245 |
ELP | Yakut |
Sakha language
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Yakut is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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The Yakut language differs from all other Turkic languages in the presence of a layer of vocabulary of unclear origin (possibly Paleo-Siberian). There is also a large number of words of Mongolian origin related to ancient borrowings, as well as numerous recent borrowings from Russian. Like other Turkic languages and their ancestor Proto-Turkic, Yakut is an agglutinative language and features vowel harmony.