Yakut language

The Yakut language, or Sakha, is a Turkic language with around 363,000 speakers that is spoken in the Sakha Republic in the Russian Federation. Its speakers are known as the Yakuts.

Related Topics:
Turkic language - Sakha Republic - Russian Federation - Yakuts

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Yakut is written using the Cyrillic script: the modern Yakut alphabet, that was established in 1939 by Soviet Union, consists of the Russian one plus 5 additional letters: {{unicode|?ҕ}}, {{unicode|Ҥҥ}}, {{unicode|??}}, {{unicode|??}}, {{unicode|??}}. The first printing in Yakut was a part of a Nicolaas Witsen's book published in 1692 in Amsterdam though.

Related Topics:
Cyrillic script - 1939 - Soviet Union - Nicolaas Witsen - 1692 - Amsterdam

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