Yakut scripts

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.