ISO 639-3 · sahsah
Turkic family
Yakut
Саха тыла
Yakut is a language of the Siberian Turkic branch (Turkic), spoken in Russia. Wikidata counts about 450,000 speakers (2010). Wikidata describes it as “Turkic language belonging to Siberian Turkic branch”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
sah- Glottocode
yaku1245- Family
- Turkic
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Centre point
- 62.35, 130.87
- Wikipedia
- 115 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
2scripts
3levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Yakut · Саха тыла |
|---|---|
| Also called | Yakut language, Sakha, Saqa, Saxa, Yakutian |
| All speakers | 450,000 (2010) |
| Written in | Cyrillic, Yakut scripts |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Turkic to Yakut
The branches above Yakut, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Russia
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