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
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| 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 | |
Yakut (/jəˈkuːt/ yə-KOOT), also known as Sakha (/səˈxɑː/ sə-KHAH) or Yakutian, is a Siberian Turkic language spoken by around 450,000 native speakers—primarily by ethnic Yakuts, but also by the Evenki, Even, Yukaghir and the Starozhily peoples. 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.