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Yakut
Also known as Yakut language, Sakha, Saqa, Saxa, Yakutian
Turkic language belonging to Siberian Turkic branch
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Yakut is a Turkic language spoken in Siberia that belongs to the Siberian Turkic branch of languages. It matters as a significant indigenous language of the Russian Far East that represents an important part of the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Sakha people.
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- Commons category
- Sakha language
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 450000
- native label
- сахалыы
- Wikimedia language code
- sah
- short name
- якутаг
- P10369
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The Yakut language (/jəˈkuːt/ yə-KOOT), also known as the Sakha language (/səˈxɑː/ sə-KHAH) or Yakutian, is a Siberian Turkic language spoken by around 450,000 native speakers—primarily by 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 loanwords of Mongolic origin, a layer of vocabulary of unclear origin, as well as numerous recent borrowings from Russian. Like other Turkic languages, Yakut is an agglutinative language and features vowel harmony.