Get to Know the Sakha language of Yakutia

 

The Sakha language, also known as the Yakut language or Yakutian, is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). 

The Republic is home to around a million people, and covers a vast area stretching all the way to the Arctic Ocean in the north. Its capital is Yakutsk, located around 450 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, on the Lena River. 

Around 450,000 people speak the Sakha language as a mother tongue.

After Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the Sakha Republic creates the third most films of any city or region in the Russian Federation.

 

Why learn the Sakha language?

A forest covered in snow in Russia

Speakers :

450,000

Where :

The Republic of Sakha / Yakutia (Russia)

Dialects :

Dolgan, a closely related language, is spoken in the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia. It is spoken in the green area of the map below

Map showing where the Sakha language is spoken
 

Cover Image

Oymyakon, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Lina Shatalova

Map

By Ceosad - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47645652

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