Yakut
Turkic language belonging to Siberian Turkic branch
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Summary
Yakut is a modern language[1]. Yakut draws 3,065 Wikipedia views per month (modern language category, ranking #12 of 43).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Sakha[3]
- Country: Russia[4]
- Instance of: natural language[5]
- Subclass of: Northern Siberian[6]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[7], Sakha scripts[8]
- Commons category: Sakha language[9]
- Wikimedia language code: sah[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Sakha language[11]
- Described at URL: https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=sah[12]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 450,000[13]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14], Small Soviet Encyclopedia[15]
- Native label: Саха тыла[16], саха тыла[17], сахалыы[18]
- Short name: якутский[19], якутська[20], yakutca[21], саха теле[22], саха дыл[23], якутаг[24]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[25]
- Indigenous to: Irkutsk Oblast[26], Khabarovsk Krai[27], Krasnoyarsk Krai[28], Magadan Oblast[29], Sakha[30]
- Female form of label: la langue iakoute[31]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SAH[32]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[33]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[34], agglutinative language[35]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Yakut-language films[36]
Why It Matters
Yakut has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Yakut is known by 91 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]