Yakut is a Turkic language with about 450,000 speakers in northern Russia. It is spoken mainly in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), and also in the Khabarovsk Region, and in Irkutsk and Magadan provinces. Yakut is a statutory provincial language in the Sakha Republic, which is known as Республика Саха (Respublika Sakha) in Russian, and Саха Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ (Sakha Öröspüübülükete) in Yakut.
Yakut is also known as Sakha or Yakut-Sakha. Native names of the language are саха тыла (saqa tıla) [saxa tɯla] and сахалыы (saqalıı) [saxalɯː].
Yakut first appeared in writing in 1692 as part of a book by the traveller N. Witsen, which was published in Amsterdam. The first literary work in Yakut, Reminiscences by A. Y. Uvarovsky, was published in 1851 as a part of Otto N. Böhtlingk's work About the Yakut language. Böhtlingk used an alphabet based on Cyrillic with some special characters. Since then several different versions of the Cyrillic alphabet have been used to write Yakut, and between 1929 and 1939 a version of the Latin alphabet was used.
As well as being spoken by ethnic Yakuts, Yakut is used as a lingua franca by Dolgans, Evenks, Evens and Yukagirs in the Sakha Republic.
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Дьон барыта бэйэ суолтатыгар уонна быраабыгар тэҥ буолан төрүүллэр. Кинилэр бары өркөн өйдөөх, суобастаах буолан төрүүллэр, уонна бэйэ бэйэлэригэр тылга кииринигэс быһыылара доҕордоһуу тыыннаах буолуохтаах.
Con barıta beye suoltatıgar uonna bıraabıgar teñ buolan törüüller. Kininler barı örkön öydööx, suobastaax buolan törüüller, uonna beye beyeleriger tılga kiiriniges bıhıılara doğordohuu tıınnaax buoluoxtaax.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Information about Yakut (Sakha) | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Information about Yakut / Sakha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakut_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakut_scripts
http://www.peoples.org.ru/eng_jakut.html
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sah
Saxa language grammar (in Russian)
http://wiki.sakhatyla.ru/wiki/Категория:Грамматика
http://www.sakhatyla.ru/scans/7
Online Yakut - Russian dictionary
http://www.sakhatyla.ru
Online Yakut news
http://www.kyym.ru
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