Yakut
сахалыы
Yakut is a Turkic language spoken in Russia, by about 450 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Yakut ( yə-KOOT), also known as Sakha ( 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.
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Written down
Дьон барыта бэйэ суолтатыгар уонна быраабыгар тэҥ буолан төрүүллэр. Кинилэр бары өркөн өйдөөх, суобастаах буолан төрүүллэр, уонна бэйэ бэйэлэригэр тылга кииринигэс быһыылара доҕордоһуу тыыннаах буолуохтаах.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Yakut
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | ийэ | iye |
| father | аҕа | aɣa |
| child | оҕо | oɣo |
| man | эр | er |
| name | аат | aat |
| friend | доҕор | doɣor |
| eye | харах | xarax |
| ear | кулгаах | kulgaax |
| nose | мурун | murun |
| tooth | тиис | tiis |
| tongue | тыл | tïl |
| hand | илии | ilii |
| heart | сүрэх | sürex |
| head | бас | bas |
| blood | хаан | xaan |
| bone | уҥуох | uŋuox |
| skin | тирии | tirii |
| knee | түһах | tühax |
| breast | эмиий | emiiy |
| liver | быар | bïar |
| water | уу | uu |
| fire | уот | uot |
| sun | күн | kün |
| moon | ый | ïy |
| star | сулус | sulus |
| sky | халлаан | xallaan |
| rain | самыыр | samïïr |
| snow | хаар | xaar |
| wind | тыал | tïal |
| stone | таас | taas |
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Vocabulary
- DolganTurkic76% alike
- KazakhTurkic49% alike
- ChagataiTurkic48% alike
- NogaiTurkic47% alike
- Northern AltaiTurkic47% alike
- Karachay-BalkarTurkic43% alike
Grammar
- Mrassu Shor-TutalTurkic91% alike
- TuvinianTurkic90% alike
- KhakasTurkic89% alike
- Peripheral MongolianMongolic-Khitan88% alike
- AzerbaijaniTurkic88% alike
- BashkirTurkic87% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · yaku1245 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · sah