Yakut language
| Yakut | |
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| Sakha | |
| Саха тыла Saxa tıla | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Sakha |
| Ethnicity | 480,000 Yakuts (2010 census) |
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Native speakers
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450,000 (2010 census) |
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Turkic
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| Cyrillic | |
| Official status | |
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Official language in
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Sakha Republic (Russia) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | yaku1245 |
Locations of Yakut (blue) and Dolgan (green)
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Yakut, also known as Sakha, is a Turkic language with around 450,000 native speakers spoken in the Sakha Republic in the Russian Federation by the Yakuts.
Like most Turkic languages and their ancestral Proto-Turkic, Yakut is an agglutinative language and employs vowel harmony.
Yakut is a member of the Northern Turkic family of languages, which includes Shor, Tuvan, and Dolgan in addition to Yakut. Like Turkish, Yakut has vowel harmony, is agglutinative and has no grammatical gender. Word order is usually subject–object–verb. Yakut has been influenced by Tungusic and Mongolian languages.
Yakut is spoken mainly in the Sakha Republic. It is also used by ethnic Yakut in Khabarovsk Region and a small diaspora in other parts of the Russian Federation, Turkey, and other parts of the world. Dolgan, a close relative of Yakut, considered by some a dialect, is spoken by Dolgans in Krasnoyarsk Region. Yakut is widely used as a lingua franca by other ethnic minorities in the Sakha Republic – more Dolgans, Evenks, Evens and Yukagirs speak Yakut than their own languages. About 8% of the people of other ethnicities than Yakut living in Sakha claimed knowledge of the Yakut language during the 2002 census.
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