Yakut language

Yakut
Sakha
Саха тыла, saxa tıla
Pronunciation	[saχa tɯla]
Native to	Russia
Region	Yakutia, Magadan Oblast, Amur Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Evenkiysky District)
Ethnicity	Yakuts
Native speakers	c. 480,000[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic Northern Siberian Yakut
Writing system	Cyrillic (formerly Latin and Cyrillic-based)
Official status
Official language in	Russia  Yakutia
Language codes
ISO 639-2	sah
ISO 639-3	sah
Glottolog	yaku1245
ELP	Yakut
Sakha language   Dolgan language
Yakut is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Yakut /jəˈkuːt/ yə-KOOT,^[2] also known as Yakutian, Sakha, Saqa or Saxa (Yakut: саха тыла), is a Turkic language belonging to Siberian Turkic branch and spoken by around 450,000 native speakers, primarily the ethnic Yakuts and one of the official languages of Sakha (Yakutia), a federal republic in the Russian Federation.

The Yakut language differs from all other Turkic languages in the presence of a layer of vocabulary of unclear origin (possibly Paleo-Siberian). There is also a large number of words of Mongolian origin related to ancient borrowings, as well as numerous recent borrowings from Russian. Like other Turkic languages and their ancestor Proto-Turkic, Yakut is an agglutinative language and features vowel harmony.