A fragment of suruk bicik
There are 4 stages in the history of Yakut writing systems:
- until the early 1920s – ad hoc Cyrillic alphabet;
- 1917–1929 – Novgorodov's Latin alphabet;
- 1929–1939 – the unified Yañalif Latin alphabet;
- since 1939 – a Yakut Cyrillic alphabet.