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
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic Northern Siberian Yakut
Writing system	Cyrillic (formerly Latin and Cyrillic-based)
Official status
Official language in	Russia Yakutia
Language codes
ISO 639-2	sah
ISO 639-3	sah
Glottolog	yaku1245
ELP	Yakut
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.

Related pages

• Yakuts
• Dolgan language