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
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SAH
P10369: Cafeteria
described at URL: turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=sah
P8168: Estádio do Canindé
female form of label: la langue iakoute

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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.