The Yakuts (Sakha)

Approx. 432.290 Yakuts (or Sakha) live in Yakutia according to Census 2002. The Republic was named by the title of this nation, the biggest one in the region.

This ethnicon has an interesting origin: it is not identified, but is supposed to remount to the southern territories, where since VII to XVII centuries people Saeki, Sakhegi, Saihachzhe, Sakhalyan are reminded. The Yakuts represent the Central Asia anthropological type of the North Asia race.

In compare with the other Siberia Turk language people, they are characterized by the strongest exertion of the mongoloid complex, which mounting was finishing in the middle of the A.D. 2nd century on the Lena River as the result of the interrelation of the ecdemic Central Asia and local Baikal components.

The Yakut language belongs to the north-eastern branch of the Turkic group of the Altaic languages. The language contains the elements of the Oguz and Kypchak languages. Some words have the Tungus origin, some are borrowed from the Mongolian language

Provided by Youth Assembly of the Peoples of the Republic Sakhа (Yakutia).
Translated by Yulia Rodina, 4th year student of Foreign Languages Faculty, Yakutsk State University.