Yakut language
| Yakut | |
|---|---|
| Sakha | |
| саха тыла, saxa tıla | |
| Pronunciation | [säˈχä tʰɯˈɫä] |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Yakutia, Magadan Oblast, Amur Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Evenkiysky District) |
| Ethnicity | Yakuts |
Native speakers | c. 450,000 |
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 | |
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.