Yakut language

Yakut
Sakha
саха тыла, saxa tıla
Pronunciationsäˈχä tʰɯˈɫä
Native toRussia
RegionYakutia, Magadan Oblast, Amur Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Evenkiysky District)
EthnicityYakuts
Native speakers
c. 450,000[1]
Turkic
  • Common Turkic
    • Siberian Turkic
      • Northern Siberian
        • Yakut
Cyrillic (formerly Latin and Cyrillic-based)
Official status
Official language in
 Russia
Language codes
ISO 639-2sah
ISO 639-3sah
Glottologyaku1245
ELPYakut
  Sakha language
  Dolgan language
Yakut is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The Yakut language, also known as the Sakha language or Yakutian, is a Siberian Turkic language spoken by around 450,000 native speakers, mainly by the ethnic Yakuts. It is one of the official languages of the Sakha Republic, a republic in the Russian Federation.

The Yakut language has a large number of foreign words of Mongolic origin, some vocabulary of unclear origin, as well as several recent borrowings from Russian. Like other Turkic languages, Yakut is an agglutinative language and features vowel harmony.

  • Yakuts
  • Dolgan language

References

  1. ↑ "Sakha language". Britannica.